The long and the short of it

Classic portfolio theory, along with its more sophisticated variants, is the most popularquantitative tool among asset managers. But for hedge fund portfolios, which containboth long and short positions, it can be dangerously misleading. Here,Mark Lundin and Stephen Satchell propose a more generalised methodology,incorporating little-known techniques from probability theory

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