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By Diane Harrison January started the year off with a bang, as global markets were rocked by Fed tightening,…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
At present, AIFMD allows for either a gross or a commitment method of measuring leverage. AIMA has suggested…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has issued a new white paper on block chains and their…
Manager Selection, Risk Management
Savills, a global real estate services provider listed on the London Stock Exchange, has released its annual…
Real Estate
The Delaware Court of Chancery has become increasingly hostile of late to lawsuits that challenge corporate…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The latest Eurekahedge report says that regional mandates for the month of December 2015 produced quite mixed…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Andrew N. Smith, CAIA, interviews Doug Himmel of Melville Capital and Adam Meltzer of Vida Capital, both…
Hedge Funds
The US Supreme Court has accepted an appeal from a Ninth Circuit decision on insider trading. Whatever the…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
By Andrew Beer New products are sold on a story.  For alternative multi-manager mutual funds – most of…
Access to Alternatives, Hedge Funds, State of the Industry
I wrote here last week about the demise of Arch Coal.  I was reminded of the incompleteness of my…
State of the Industry, ESG
The Alternative Investment Management Association and S3 Partners jointly sponsored a new survey and report…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
FXCM, an online provider of foreign exchange trading related services, announced January 6 that it has…
Asset Allocation
There is an ancient principle of prudence, “don’t fix what isn’t broken.” Thomas Jefferson alludes to it in…
Asset Allocation
By Konstantin Danilov, CFA Even though the rate of public company bankruptcies is at an all-time low, there…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Arch Coal, one of the biggest coal companies in The United States, entered Chapter 11 Monday morning, Jan 11…
State of the Industry, ESG