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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
CalPERS’ recent announcement that it will close down its hedge fund operation raises a range of obvious and…
State of the Industry
By Andrew Beer Institutional hedge fund investing is entering a new era. Generation one entailed investing…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
By Don Steinbrugge   CalPERS’ announcement to divest of hedge funds has created a significant buzz in…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
By Charles Skorina In July, Scott Evans reported for duty as Chief Investment Officer in New York City's…
State of the Industry
“They used a Burr XII extreme value distribution?” “Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard.” “What the heck is that?” “…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
By Diane Harrison With the third quarter of 2014 coming to its close, and year-end allocation decisions…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
It is an old and one-would-hope familiar lesson, but not for that reason an unnecessary one. We don’t take…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A new Study of Investments for Private Foundations, sponsored jointly by the Council on Foundations and…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
By Charles Skorina The future looks bright for investment-management professionals as global assets under…
State of the Industry
Demand produces its own supply. That is the contrary of Says Law, and it is the moral of Deutsche Bank’s new…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
A new report stresses the extent to which the world of high-frequency trading is winner-take-all. Three…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds
McKinsey has published a Private Banking Survey, part of a series it initiated in 2002. The gist of this one…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
“The New York Times froze the pension benefits for non-union employees, and we were determined that they…
State of the Industry
One of the great clichés of the dotcom boom was, “information wants to be free.” This conveyed a number of…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation