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New Paper Tackles Basic Questions About Alternative Investments
RCM Alternatives, a Chicago-based asset manager specializing in managed futures products, has published a new…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Active vs. Passive: A 3-Club Headwind
By Scott Opsal Relative Performance Actively managed funds have recently underperformed passive indexes. As a…
Asset Allocation, Manager Selection, State of the Industry
NB: China Positions the Yuan for Global Reserve Currency Status
Neuberger Berman, the asset management business spun off from Lehman in late 2008, has produced a new report…
Asset Allocation
5 Reasons Why Emerging Managers are Worth a Look
By Diane Harrison Beware the industry naysayers who proclaim hedge funds aren’t worth their salt--fees/risk/…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Study Says Pensions May Be Looking for Returns in the Wrong Places
Alex Beath, senior research analyst at CEM Benchmarking, the Toronto-based pension research firm, has…
Real Estate, Asset Allocation
Headline vs. Core Inflation: We Shouldn’t Have Laughed
I’m old enough to remember the 1970s, and to remember the economic debates in the United States at the time…
Hedge Funds
Waiting for Normalization: Issuing Convertibles
A moderate increase in the issuance of convertible bonds globally over the last three years came about only…
Hedge Funds
Stocks after Shocks: Equity Returns in the Face of Monetary Policy
A new paper by two economists affiliated with the Federal Reserve System presents a new measure of the…
Asset Allocation
Eurekahedge: Performance Down, Inflows Up in 1st Half 2016
The latest report from Eurekahedge indicates that hedge funds’ assets under management are up by $19.9…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Litigating in the Wake of Manning
The United States Supreme Court preserved a role for state courts in securities litigation in a case…
Hedge Funds
Herbalife and Ackman: A History 
On July 15, 2016, Herbalife Ltd and the Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement that settles the FTC’s…
Hedge Funds
Volatility Spillover Effects: India, Korea, China
Last year, two scholars writing in the Journal of Alternative Investments looked at the volatility spillover…
Asset Allocation
Taking the Alcohol Out of the Wine:  A Decarbonized Index
A recent publication in the Financial Analysts Journal presents a model by virtue of which long-term passive…
State of the Industry, ESG
The Harvard Management Co.: Time for some creative destruction?
By Charles Skorina   It's been 10 years now since Jack Meyer stepped down as head of Harvard…
State of the Industry
Crude Oil at Mid-Year: IEA Assessment
As this year began, crude oil prices were stuck at their lowest level in twelve years. The world seemed to be…