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The Skorina Report: The 'hoarding' hoax, 'excessive' private-equity fees and other confusions
By Charles Skorina Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of San Diego, expressed outrage this…
Private Equity
How Start-ups Are Influencing Alternative Assets (Video)
Every year there seems to be a record number of hedge fund start-ups, but the co-founder of Blue River…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds
An Overview of Real Asset Investing
By Andrew Smith, CAIA Institutional investors are significantly increasing their allocations to real assets…
Risk Management, Real Estate, Private Equity, Infrastructure, Emerging Asset Classes
Alternative Investments By the Numbers: Top 5 2015 YTD Takeaways
By Andre Boreas, CEO, Quadsight Partners As the half-way point of the year passes, we thought it would be a…
Private Equity, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
SEC: KKR Misallocated ‘Broken Deal’ Costs
When people speaking normal non-lawyerly English use the word “deceit,” they generally refer to somebody’s…
Risk Management, Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
Hybrid Equity: Another Perspective on Private Equity
By Diane Harrison Prior to the mid 2000s, private equity represented the de facto route to long-term…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Tax & Election Seasons Create Alternative Altercations in the US
The end of tax season and the start of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President nearly coincided this year,…
Real Estate, Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
Does Private Real Estate Actually Have a Low Correlation with Public Real Estate?
The actual return correlation between two assets has nothing to do with whether they’re listed (public) or…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
After the Balkan Adventure: A Bad Bank Gets Worse
The Austrian Financial Market Authority pulled the plug on Austria’s “bad bank” on March 1. This is the end…
Private Equity, Asset Allocation
AIMA Reports: Activist Hedge Funds are the Good Guys
The Alternative Investment Management Association in a new paper credits “activist engagement by hedge funds…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Financing For Knights in Shining, or in Sooty, Armor
What will the market for acquisition financing look like in another five years? I submit (as a best guess)…
Risk Management, Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
Competing Bankruptcy Filings for Caesar’s: Third-Party Releases
On Monday, January 12th, second lien noteholders, notably including David Tepper’s hedge fund Appaloosa,…
Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
How Bad is the Cash Drag on Open-End Private Equity Real Estate Funds?
By Brad Case, Ph.D., CFA, CAIA More than 46 basis points per year on average. That’s a pretty hefty drag,…
Real Estate, Private Equity
Does Leverage Have a Positive or Negative Effect on Private Equity Real Estate Investments?
By Brad Case, Ph.D., CFA, CAIA On balance it’s probably positive, provided you’re in the market during enough…
Real Estate, Private Equity
Business Development Companies: The Basics
By Andrew Smith, CAIA The public consensus on Business Development Companies (BDCs) is that they are “the new…
Private Equity, Access to Alternatives