An Affordable, Tax-Efficient, Long/Short Hedge Fund by Jack Vogel, Ph.D., Alpha Architect
Bad News: The market current offers long/short equity exposure that is expensive, tax-inefficient, opaque, and the underlying process is often questionable.
Good News: We've created a Do-It-Yourself long/short equity solution, that is affordable, tax-efficient, fully transparent, and backed by empirical evidence.
How this all got started...
Over the past few years, we were asked--on multiple occasions--to create long/short strategies that leverage our quantitative value philosophy.
The long/short story is great; management fees are higher ; and third-party marketing folks love to sell this stuff.
But there were two problems:
- We believe in evidence-based investing, not story-based investing.
- We also believe in delivering affordable active alpha, not layering in third-party marketing fees...
The other problem we needed to solve...

