AdvisorShares Launches Long/Short Hedge Fund ETF (QEH)

AdvisorShares, one of the largest issuers of active ETFs, made another addition to its lineup this week with the debut of a fund that will seek to capture results of long/short hedge fund managers. The new QAM Equity Hedge ETF (QEH) will employ an active long/short strategy that will seek to outperform about half of the long/short equity hedge fund universe that makes up the HFRI Equity Hedge Index. That benchmark includes a number of long/short hedge funds who report their results monthly to HFRI; QEH will effectively attempt to match the performance of that universe, which would result in outperforming about half of the component managers. It should be noted that the universe of component hedge funds doesn’t necessarily include only market neutral strategies; many hedge funds who report results to HFRI are net long–and often more than 50% net long. QEH will seek to deliver better risk adjusted [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: ProShares Launches Hedge Fund Replication ETF (HDG) Hedge Fund “Clone” ETF Debuts (ALFA) How Have The Hedge Fund ETFs Held Up In The Crisis? How ETFs Have Democratized Investing Using ETFs To Access Alternatives