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Sep 2007	Pensions & Investments: Time to Rethink Performance Measurement by William G. Ferrell The September 3, 2007 issue of Pensions & Investments featured the asset allocation versus risk allocation analysis published in the August 2007 issue of Standard Deviations. The piece was originally titled "From Asset Classes to Risk Buckets — Is Your Benchmark Misbehaving?" and is available on the Research Publications page.
Aug 2007	Lipper HedgeWorld/Reuters: Hedge Fund Redemptions May Shake Markets by Chidem Kurdas FCM President & CIO William G. Ferrell was interviewed for the article, published August 15, 2007. There's no way to predict the extent of hedge fund redemptions, said Bill Ferrell of Ferrell Capital Management, a fund of funds manager. "When the going gets tough, some of the hot money will pull out," he said. The economy is robust and there will come a time when subprime loans will stop falling in value, said Mr. Ferrell. Investors with the capital to buy cheap assets have a lot of opportunities, he said. [HedgeWorld Login Required]
	Lipper HedgeWorld/Reuters: Credit Investment Outlook Scary but Interesting by Chidem Kurdas FCM President & CIO William G. Ferrell was interviewed for the article, published August 2, 2007. "I don’t think the market gets any more interesting than it is now," said Bill Ferrell, president of Ferrell Capital Management, a fund of funds firm. "I like the current market environment for hedge funds. Fixed income was completely asleep, now it’s awakened by the mispricing of credit," he said. He predicts that in the new environment differences between managers will become more pronounced, so effective risk control will be all the more important. [HedgeWorld Login Required]
June 2007	Emerging Manager Focus: In My Opinion by William G. Ferrell Bill Ferrell, founder of money management firm Ferrell Capital Management, contributes an editorial article asking why so many institutional investors are infinitely comfortable allowing equity and fixed income allocations to dominate their portfolios when they so often misbehave.
May 2007	Emerging Manager Focus: It's All About Risk by William G. Ferrell Bill Ferrell, founder of money management firm Ferrell Capital Management, explores the variability of investment performance by way of an alligator allegory. Investment return dispersion is volatile, unpredictable, and dangerous like an alligator's bite. Ferrell shares risk management techniques to generate consistent returns and allay the beast.
Mar 2007	Dow Jones/MarketWatch Interview with Bill Ferrell Video with Alistair Barr and William G. Ferrell Dow Jones/MarketWatch reporter Alistair Barr interviewed Ferrell Capital Management President & CIO William G. Ferrell in early March 2007. They discussed the concept of the Risk Diet and how it applies to the market hiccup that occurred in late February 2007.
	Lipper HedgeWorld/Reuters: In Choppy Market, Absolute Return Choices Beckon by Chidem Kurdas FCM President & CIO William G. Ferrell was interviewed for the article, published March 7, 2007. “A couple of weeks before the stock market took a dive in late February, William Ferrell said that market volatility has been at such a low point only a few of times in history, and it also had spiked pretty fast in those instances. Mr. Ferrell's point was not to forecast a sudden jump in volatility—although such a prediction looks pretty good in hindsight—but to advocate the adding of absolute return strategies to institutional portfolios.” [HedgeWorld Login Required]
Feb 2007	Ferrell Capital Management Named Alternative Manager of the Year On February 26, 2007, Opal Financial Group hosted its inaugural Global Asset Allocation Awards Dinner. Ferrell Capital Management was presented the award for Alternative Manager of the Year in recognition of “cutting edge strategies and techniques employed to augment returns and mitigate risk in the global allocation process.”
	Lipper HedgeWorld/Reuters: Equity Boom Gives Managers Pause by Chidem Kurdas FCM President & CIO William G. Ferrell was interviewed for the article, published February 21, 2007. “Equity markets will revert to the mean and it's best to diversify before volatility spikes, argued William Ferrell of Ferrell Capital Management, a fund of funds. He emphasized the possibility of getting equity-type returns with less risk.” [HedgeWorld Login Required]
	Pensions & Investments: Time to Put Equity Portfolio on a Risk Diet (pdf) by William G. Ferrell The February 19, 2007 issue of Pensions & Investments featured the Risk Diet concept put forward in the February 2007 issue of Standard Deviations.
Feb 2006	HedgeFund.Net: Fund-of-Funds Redemption Reinvestment by William G. Ferrell In February 2006, HedgeFund.Net published an editorial in their Shadow Sows column entitled “Redemption Mania” sharply criticizing the Fund of Hedge Funds investment model. President & CIO of Ferrell Capital Management, William G. Ferrell, wrote this response.
Dec 2005	Pensions & Investments: Alpha Plus Beta Equals a Good Combination (pdf) by William G. Ferrell & John D. Podewils The December 12, 2005 issue of Pensions & Investments featured this article discussing Portable Alpha and FCM's vector research. These concepts were originally published in the July 2005 issue of Standard Deviations.
Sep 2005	HedgeFund.Net: Meet the Manager HedgeNews Editors interview Ferrell Capital Management President & CIO William G. Ferrell regarding his perspective on the investment business, portfolio management, and the Ferrell Concert fund of hedge funds.


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