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Signs of a Renaissance in Emerging Manager 'Alpha'
By Peter Urbani The recent announcement by CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the world, that it was…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Self-Employment Tax – Limited Partners Beware!
By Maury Cartine, CPA, JD, Partner in Charge of Alternative Investment Group Tax, Marcum, LLP The IRS…
Manager Selection
Merger Arb: Getting Your Stick to Where the Puck Will Be
This spring and summer’s excitement over Valeant and Allergan, and the former’s desire to acquire the latter…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Eurekahedge: Europe-Focused Managers Took Hits in July
The independent data provider Eurekahedge tells us in its latest report that European and North American…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
All Regional Mandates in Positive Territory YTD
Global equity markets are doing well now and the hedge fund industry benefits. That’s the gist of the latest…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A Challenge to Bayesian Probability
A surprising dust-up in the blogosphere in recent days concerns Thomas Bayes, and the distinctive branch of…
Risk Management, Manager Selection
Tactical Alpha and Persistence in Hedge Fund Returns
By Andrew Beer A vexing issue with hedge funds is the lack of persistence of returns. Last year’s winners…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
GMI Numbers-Crunching Predicts Stock Returns
Nobody ever said winning alpha was going to be easy. Among the people who don’t say that, count the author of…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Japanese Investors Sticking with Hedge Funds, Expect Nikkei Rise
Below you’ll find a chart that covers one year in the life of the Nikkei 225, concluding June 27, 2014. It is…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
In-house [Im]Prop[er] Trading: Proceed with Caution
By Ginger Szala MF Global is one of the more blatant examples of the danger of banks and brokers…
Manager Selection
The Skorina Report: Endowment Performance at Flagship State Schools
The super-endowments of the traditional Private Ivys -- like Harvard and Yale -- are always closely watched,…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Why are Hedge Fund Assets Reaching All-time Highs?
By Don Steinbrugge, CFA There is a constant flood of articles in the media articulating that hedge funds…
Asset Allocation, Hedge Funds, Manager Selection, State of the Industry
A New Study Looks at Executive Pay
By Vikas Shah There is little doubt that we are facing tough times for the economy.  Rising unemployment…
Manager Selection
Squeezed Margins and a Move to the Clouds
The archeologists of the distant future will no doubt tell of the great 21st shift of the human race from…
Manager Selection, Infrastructure
Doing Penance for the Draw-down
A new paper by David H. Bailey and Marcos Lopez de Prado suggests that one of the consequences of over-…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds