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Yes, Speech is Free for Short Sellers, Too
U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick, shown here, has adopted the role of free speech hero. On…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Case study: Straits gives managed futures a facelift
By Ginger Szala When the JOBS Act is discussed in managed fund circles, it’s typically due to its elimination…
Access to Alternatives
The Magnetism of Insider Trading: Part One
Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson have won an appeal from their convictions of insider trading. The big…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Plans for a Nickel-Tick Pilot: Trouble in the Details
One of the provisions of the JOBS Act of 2012 strongly suggested that the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Access to Alternatives
Capital Markets, Derivatives and the Law
Evolution After Crisis By Alan N. Rechtschaffen 496 pages Oxford University Press Early on in his new book,…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
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
Bitcoin: Three Bits of News on a Microcosm
For those who believe that bitcoin, or some virtual currency akin to bitcoin, represents the future of human…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Judge David Carter’s Valeant Decision: A Close Reading
February and April 2014, Pershing Square acquired 9.7% of the shares of Allergan, a pharm company based in…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Investment Advisors, Investors and Beauty Contests
Wealth Management Unwrapped is Charlotte B. Beyer’s new book about how high-net-worth individuals ought to go…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
The Undead Enron Model Returns to the World above Ground
Our readers are probably aware by now that Mercuria has closed on its purchase of JP Morgan’s energy trading…
Access to Alternatives
Two Types of Secrecy: Proprietary Trading Data and the Doomsday Book
Unseal the Doomsday book! Yes, though, I know: governments never run out of excuses to keep secrets. Further…
Access to Alternatives
Liquidity Makers and Takers: A Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Economics, formally the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
Untangling the web of HFT
In the words of Sir Walter Scott, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” A key…
Access to Alternatives
Late September Bombshell from Judge Lamberth
“It’s late September and I really should be getting back to school,” sang Rod Stewart in Maggie Mae.…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Footnote 13: Barclays Did ‘Change the Number’
The ongoing exchange of briefs between the New York Attorney General and Barclays in a lawsuit over the HFT…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives