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Supreme Court Decisions: Post-Announcement Hours & Days
Suppose the U.S. Supreme Court announced a ruling on a given morning that seemed certain to have a market…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Japan: Richardson makes a Tricky Case
Heidi Richardson, global investment strategist for BlackRock, writing in that investment management firm’s…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Skorina Report: Fearless Forecast Says That Endowment Returns Will Disappoint in FY2015
Can you feel it?  Can you feel the tension building as we await the official endowment returns for…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Foundations: They’ve Taken a Blow from “Subdued” Markets
Both private and community foundations depend heavily on U.S. equities. Indeed, domestic equities remained…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Administration, via Verrelli, Rolls the Dice on Insider Trading Issue
The Obama administration’s solicitor general, Donald Verrelli Jr., has asked the Supreme Court to review the…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
What Taper Tantrum?  And, Will Yellen Pull a Bernanke?
Convergence of developments in late August 2015 have forced me to think about the “Taper Tantrum” of 2013,…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Cause and Effect: Or, Shooting the Messenger
One of the oldest sorts of “media criticism” is the argument that reporting on something bad causes that bad…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
CFTC Exempts ASX Clear from DCO Registration
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, on Aug. 19, exempted ASX Clear (Futures) from the obligation to…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Weintraub of GFT: Basel III Coming Into Force by Increments
    Source: JPMorgan investor Services white paper, Leveraging the Leverage Ratio, Appendix  …
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Hedge Fund Assets to Increase a Quarter Trillion Dollars by Summer of 2016
By Don Steinbrugge, CFA This is an update to an article I wrote last summer explaining why the hedge fund…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Eurekahedge: The Markets are Reading the Headlines
A new report from Eurekahedge gives a new perspective to the dawning realization that China’s real economy is…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Skorina Report: Risky Business--Chief Investment Officers and Public Pension Plans
Happy August! This is supposed to be the slow season in the media biz as torpid reporters and readers doze…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Event-Driven Hedge Funds Rescued by Obamacare
In the first seven months of 2015 the healthcare market came to the rescue of the event-driven strategy.…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
SEC's Daniel Gallagher: Friend of the Beleaguered CCO
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Daniel Gallagher has garnered attention in recent months as a dissenter…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The LIBOR Fixing Scandal Gets a Conviction and a Book
This month began rather badly for Tom Hayes. A jury found him guilty of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation