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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
Saving the World: One EM City at a Time
The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate has issued a new report urging governments and major…
Infrastructure
Looking to the Technological Imperative: Where Has It Been?
On September 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission held an open meeting about a proposed shortening of…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
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
THE NLRB AND THE HEDGE FUND—MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING?
By Mark D. Schorr, Of Counsel,Crow & Cushing Maybe you thought that employers whose employees are…
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
From UMIFA to UPMIFA: Taking Stock 10 Years Later
Ten years ago, thus before the global financial crisis, the Uniform Law Commission promulgated the Uniform…
State of the Industry
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
Eurekahedge on Outflows, Performance and Tail Risk
Eurekahedge, a provider of hedge fund industry news since 2001, has released its report about the state of…
Hedge Funds
Alpha From the Non-Bank Lending Space
A new report, Financing the Economy 2016, looks at “the role of alternative asset managers in the non-bank…
Hedge Funds
Kyle Bass, IPR and Shorting Big Pharma
Kyle Bass, the investor who shorted the market in residential mortgage-based securities a decade ago, with…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes
Research, Unbundling and MiFID II
The “soft dollars” question, that is, the issue of the arrangements by which the managers of other peoples’…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
ATTACK MARKETING USING THE RULE OF 150
By Diane Harrison The Rule of 150, first posited in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, refers…
State of the Industry
Aligning Interests: Changes in Alt Investment Business Models
A new AIMA research paper discusses “the alignment of interests between hedge fund managers and investors” as…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Investors in Extractive Industries: Practice Your Forced Grin
A new book comes to us this year from the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), a think…