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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
Headline Factors and Hedge Fund Success
The factors driving hedge fund returns in the various regions of the world are, roughly, what you might guess…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Mladina on Peeling the Onion: Looking for Idiosyncratic Skill
Peter Mladina, the director of portfolio research for wealth management at Northern Trust, began a recent…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
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
House of Saud Retains Plenty of Clout
On June 1, The Wall Street Journal led with this story: “OPEC Clout Hits New Low.” The piece states in…
Asset Allocation
The Skorina Report: Wall Street Pay & CEO Performance: Who got their money's worth?
By Charles Skorina May kicked off, as always, with the Woodstock of Capitalism in Omaha. 40,000 …
Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
One Decision, Two Courts, Three Nations, Four Angles
A Canadian court and a U.S. court (in Ontario and Delaware respectively) have agreed on how the proceeds of…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
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
Top Hedge Fund Managers: They Aren’t Wizards, but They Are Masters
Maneet Ahuja is going head-to-head with Jack D. Schwager, and his “wizards” books, in this new volume from…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Lies, Damned Lies and Alpha
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.--Benjamin Disraeli Investors equate “alpha”…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Northern Trust on Hedge Funds, Big Data and Transparency
Northern Trust’s new report about transparency in hedge fund holdings reminds me somewhat of the opening…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
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
If I Can't Call It a Hedge Fund, What AM I Going to Call It?
Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2015: "One of the keys to running a hedge fund is learning how to say you don'…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A Caddie's Observations on Money Management
By Diane Harrison Golf is a game but also a mindset. As one of the harder sports to master, golf has long…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Banned in China: High Praise for a Statistics Textbook
There was a time when the expression ”banned in Boston” was a selling point. Indeed, the expression may have…
Asset Allocation