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Global Focus Capital: Market’s Inflationary Expectations Are Too Low
Investors can get ahead of events by aligning their portfolios to “a world of lower expected capital market…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Trust Isn’t Just a Nice Warm Feeling
Ross Levine, professor of finance at the University of California, Berkeley, and two scholars from Hong Kong…
Asset Allocation
Escape to the Internet? Or Build Better Communities?
Dissatisfaction with the fiat money issued by or on signals from central bankers will not go away. Talk of “…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Dry Bulk Shipping Recovery: Three Causes
The value of the equity of Star Bulk (SBLK) has risen since the start of the year from $0.616 to just above…
Hedge Funds
The SEC: Still Fiddling with a 1940 Era Carburetor 
Steven A. Keen of Perkins Coie has posted an insightful discussion of section 18 of the Investment Company…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
Convertibles as a Risk Management Tool in Emerging Markets Portfolios
By Nick Niziolek, CFA In a recent post titled The Convertible Bond Trifecta, my colleague Scott Henderson…
Hedge Funds
Brexit and Derivatives: Allen & Overy’s Views
A decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union could be a bad thing for the derivatives markets…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Access to Alternatives
Risk Management & the Trouble with Capacity-Driven Decisions
A recent CAIA member contribution by Kathryn Kaminski, director of investment strategies at Campbell & Co…
Risk Management
The Skorina Report: Russell Read and the Alaska Permanent Fund
By Charles Skorina Russell Read has just been appointed chief investment officer of the $52 billion…
State of the Industry
Thoughts on the Valuation of Secured Assets of a Bankrupt Debtor
How should one value the assets of a bankrupt entity, especially those that secure its debt instruments? That…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Why NYCERS Should Reconsider Exiting All Hedge Funds
By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA I would like to share some thoughts regarding New York City Employees…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
March Improved, but 2016 Still Rains Red for Hedge Funds
The latest report from Eurekahedge indicates that hedge funds worldwide gained in March, though by far less…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Infrastructure, Dividends and Path Dependence
A new paper from EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore argues that infrastructure firms represent a unique…
Infrastructure
The Value of a Proxy Access Mandate: Part Two
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on the issue of the value of a proxy access mandate. In the first…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Value of a Proxy Access Mandate: Part One
This begins a two-part discussion of the issue of the value of a proxy access mandate. The question is an…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation