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Eurekahedge: Exodus from the Event-Driven Funds YTD  
The event-driven hedge fund space is the most troubled in a generally troubled time for the industry.…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Fraudulent Transfer: No ‘Safety’ for Lyondell Shareholders   
In two decisions this year, in July and against in a re-affirmance in October, the U.S. District Court for…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
BLEAK HOUSE--OR THE OUTLOOK ON HEDGE FUNDS NOW
By Diane Harrison Charles Dickens’ Bleak House spins a tale of mystery, intrigue, family dynamics, and irony…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Islam, Western Pensions, and Real Assets
A recent academic discussion of the much-vexed question of Islamic finance (including the always at least…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes, Asset Allocation
It’s On: Bondholder Groups Square Off over Puerto Rico Financing
On Oct. 7, a group of hedge funds that hold the general obligation bonds of Puerto Rico amended an existing…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Venezuela: Thinking of Cromwell and Crude
Hedge funds, among them some of those the unsympathetic call “vultures,” bought into the bonds of the…
Asset Allocation
Fine Art as Joy and Investment: A Reflection
Why do people own great paintings? As something pleasing to hang on the wall? As a way to impress the…
Asset Allocation
Tick Pilot Program: A Progress Report
The long-awaited nickel-tick pilot program, an effort to test an alternative to the penny-or-less tick sizes…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Papaconstantinou on ‘Selling the Family Silver’  
A former finance minister of the Republic of Greece has published a book, Game Over, on what it is like to be…
Asset Allocation
The Harvard Management Company to Big to Hail?
In asset management, as in other endeavors, size really does matter. Bigger is better.  But growth in…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
On Aluminum and Other Metals: A Thought on Physicality 
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx), the company that bought the London Metal Exchange four years ago,…
Asset Allocation
ESMA's Greybeards Ponder Blockchains
There has been a flurry in recent days of activity about blockchains among the graybeards of the financial…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
UC Berkeley: Stale Prices Not a Threat to Liquidity Takers
Two scholars associated with the University of California, Berkeley, have argued in a recent paper that there…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Sovereign Debt: A Cryonic Solution to the Holdout Problem
Where does the world stand on the restructuring problem after NML v Argentina?  One professor and one…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Northill: In Defense of Active Management
Northill Capital, a London-based asset manager, has released a report defending active asset management from…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation