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Pension Funds, Hedge Funds, and Allocations
A new scholarly paper addresses the puzzle: which institutional investors are best informed? Zhe Chen, of the…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Outsourced CIO assets grow to $1.3 Trillion
By Charles Skorina With 74 firms reporting in, total outsourced CIO assets (managed with full discretion)…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection
McKinsey: Historically Anomalous Period Nears an End
McKinsey & Co. has posted a new report assessing the state and the future of the North American asset…
State of the Industry, Infrastructure
Dealmakers: Trump, Hillary, and Mergers
Intralinks, a firm created 20 years ago to enable “high-stakes transactions and business collaborations,” has…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Judge Rose: Libya’s SWF Heads Knew What They Were Doing
The economic historians of posterity have their work cut out for them here. There are doctoral dissertations…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Impact Investing: The Impacts, Measurement and Profit
One candidate for the title “next new thing” is “impact investing.” As the term suggests, this refers to…
State of the Industry, ESG
Massad: Where the U.S. and the World Stand on Margins & Cap Requirements
The chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Timothy Massad, addressed the Outlook Conference of…
Asset Allocation
Academics:  No, Navinder Sarao Did Not Cause the Flash Crash 
Mid-October news reports tell us that Navinder Sarao has lost his effort to avoid extradition from Britain to…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
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
Harvard gives Narv the nod
By Charles Skorina As all the world now knows, Harvard has selected Columbia's Nirmal P. "Narv" Narvekar as…
State of the Industry
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