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Bitcoin and Kin: The View from Europe
The European Securities and Markets Authority has issued a “call for evidence” on virtual currency and…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Dead Hand Proxy Puts: A Case Study
There are a number of respects in which corporate law is moving, slowly but perceptibly, in the direction of…
Access to Alternatives
European Investor Satisfaction with Smart Beta ETFs
A new study by the EDHEC-Risk Institute has found that those who have invested in smart beta exchange traded…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Fractional Reserve Banking: From First Premises
Three quite recent stories bring forcefully to mind certain basic facts about banks, fractional reserves, and…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Basel: What Does IRRBB Demand from Supervisors or Bank Boards?
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has posted its latest consultative document, this time on the…
Access to Alternatives
Spoofing: The ‘It’ Enforcement Action
Both the CME Group and its regulator, the CFTC, are reacting to recent demands that they beef up enforcement…
Hedge Funds, 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
Side Letters and the Caymans: The Latest
A powerful trend in the courts of the Cayman Islands in recent litigation (since 2012) has run against the…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
A New Index: The Eurekahedge 50
Eurekahedge, a fund data and research operation with which our readers are quite familiar, has joined with…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Corporate Governance: Sunday in the Park With George
One much discussed question in the academic study of modern finance is: “does corporate governance really…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
The STOCK Act Was Just For Show: Looking at the Inside of Insider Trading
A fascinating bit of litigation, one with financial, constitutional, and even psychological significance,…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Forrest or the HFTrees? ‘Preferred Data Customers’
The exchanges (and by implication high-frequency traders) have won a victory in the U.S. District Court for…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Bankruptcy Giant Harvey Miller: Rest in Peace
One of the giants of bankruptcy law in the United States has passed away. Harvey Miller will be important to…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
GOOG to Test Buy-on-Antitrust-Charge Theory
Before there were “computers” in the modern sense, years before Alan Turing built a machine to decode Enigma…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Aleynikov’s Trial and My Cousin Vinnie
Prosecutors keep trying to ensure that Sergey Aleynikov is treated as a criminal for allegedly attempting to…
Emerging Asset Classes, Access to Alternatives