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Private Capital Fundraising Slows: Green and Brown Valleys
Preqin, the multinational data and consulting firm, has looked at the second quarter and found it was, for…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Infrastructure
ESG Issues: The Material and the Immaterial
Activists pressing for corporate change on environmental, social, and governance issues often focus on issues…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, ESG, Asset Allocation
Managing Expectations: The Rise of the Separately Managed Account
By Diane Harrison The line between wealth management and fund management continues to blur for the…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Infrastructure: Look at the Contracts--Not the Industry or the Index
A new paper from EDHEC Infrastructure Institute decides that there is no such thing as a listed…
Risk Management, Infrastructure, Asset Allocation
6 Questions about Dead Hand Proxy Puts
Dead Hand Proxy Puts are a relatively recent innovation in corporate finance, one intended to fend off…
Hedge Funds
Lyxor Quants Ask: What Exactly is a ‘Risk Factor’ Anyway?
Given the growing body of scholarly work over “risk factor” investing, especially the growing number of risks…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
AIMA on the Consequences of Brexit: Three Scenarios
Among the questions that have acquired a great deal of urgency in recent days is: what will Brexit mean for…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
All About Alpha: Dawn of a New Decade
By Chris Holt Today marks the dawn of a second decade for this venerable blog.  AllAboutAlpha published…
Manager Selection
Brexit and Hedge Fund Strategies
How well did hedge funds help their investors to hedge potential losses as a consequence of the markets’…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Eurekahedge: Distressed Debt Managers Led the Tables in May
The latest report from Eurekahedge, in its tracking of the health of the hedge fund industry worldwide and…
Hedge Funds
Lewis’ Heroes Get an Exchange for Their Speed Bump
On Friday, June 17, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the promotion of IEX from an ATS to a…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
New AIMA Guide: 7 Themes for Investor Relations Professionals
In October 2015, a scholar at the University of Toronto wrote a paper on what he called the “paranoid style…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection
Welcome to Low-Return World: Will Chief Investment Officers and Trustees be ready?
By Charles Skorina For executive recruiters like us, that's a question we'll have to wrestle with as we…
State of the Industry, Infrastructure
Puerto Rico: The New Argentina?
Puerto Rico and various instrumentalities thereof may default on debt within days. If they do so, this will…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The hedge fund fee structure consumes 80% of alpha
By Andrew Beer Investors bear the risks and managers reap the rewards. The average hedge fund earns 1.67 per…
Hedge Funds, State of the Industry