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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…
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
Hedge fund activists need friends
Two scholars at the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, in the UK, have written a paper on “the…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
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
Eurekahedge: Redemptions Exceeding New Investment for HFs Worldwide
Hedge funds have now seen three consecutive months in which redemptions have exceeded new investment, for a…
Hedge Funds
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
Fiduciary Duty, Excessive Fees, and Findings of Fact  
The Honorable Peter J. Sheridan, for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, ruled in favor…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Access to Alternatives