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A Review of the Commodity Index/Global Hunger Controversy
The consensus in market scholarship seems to be not only that “still waters run deep” but that deep waters…
Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Best Practices for Private Equity Sponsors in an Age of Increasing Scrutiny
By John Czapla, Parag Patel and Shane Newell, Valuation Research Corporation As the demand for transparency…
Manager Selection, Private Equity, Risk Management
Tricky Times for Hedge Funds and a Lot of Negative YTD Performances
A slim majority of hedge fund managers are in the red year to date, through April, according to the latest…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Chasing Fund Returns Is A Terrible Idea
By Andrew Beer How does a fund earn over $500 million in management fees yet lose over $1 billion for…
Manager Selection
Platts Windows and Cash Settlements
The “Platts window,” a metaphorical structure named after the influential provider of benchmark price…
Credit Derivatives in China: A 2014 Presentation Recalled
The People’s Bank of China launched two seemingly important products in 2010: the Credit Risk Mitigation…
Risk Management
The Alberta Approach to Benchmarking & Performance Attribution
The Alberta Management Investment Corp. began life in 2008, as a successor to a division of Alberta Finance.…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
10 Phrases To Jettison From Every Marketing Pitch
By Diane Harrison Spring is typically filled with tailored events for investors and managers to engage, learn…
State of the Industry
Wrangling the Unicorns: Yale celebrates their VC heroes
Yale, in their 2015 annual report issued this month has broken out their private equity allocation into…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Asset Allocation
Global Focus Capital: Market’s Inflationary Expectations Are Too Low
Investors can get ahead of events by aligning their portfolios to “a world of lower expected capital market…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Trust Isn’t Just a Nice Warm Feeling
Ross Levine, professor of finance at the University of California, Berkeley, and two scholars from Hong Kong…
Asset Allocation
Escape to the Internet? Or Build Better Communities?
Dissatisfaction with the fiat money issued by or on signals from central bankers will not go away. Talk of “…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Dry Bulk Shipping Recovery: Three Causes
The value of the equity of Star Bulk (SBLK) has risen since the start of the year from $0.616 to just above…
Hedge Funds
The SEC: Still Fiddling with a 1940 Era Carburetor 
Steven A. Keen of Perkins Coie has posted an insightful discussion of section 18 of the Investment Company…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
Convertibles as a Risk Management Tool in Emerging Markets Portfolios
By Nick Niziolek, CFA In a recent post titled The Convertible Bond Trifecta, my colleague Scott Henderson…
Hedge Funds