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Real Estate: Footloose Money Chasing Cross-Border Deals
Savills, a global real estate services provider listed on the London Stock Exchange, has released its annual…
Real Estate
Challenges to Mergers: Not So Automatic Anymore?
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
Eurekahedge: Performance after the ECB Underwhelms
The latest Eurekahedge report says that regional mandates for the month of December 2015 produced quite mixed…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
A Short History of Life Settlements
Andrew N. Smith, CAIA, interviews Doug Himmel of Melville Capital and Adam Meltzer of Vida Capital, both…
Hedge Funds
Insider Trading: Big-mouth Bankers and Remote Tippees
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
Alternative Multi-Manager Mutual Funds: What’s the Value Proposition, Again?
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
More about Arch Coal and the Dusty Trail Ahead
I wrote here last week about the demise of Arch Coal.  I was reminded of the incompleteness of my…
State of the Industry, ESG
Banks (PBs): Turning Cash Away
The Alternative Investment Management Association and S3 Partners jointly sponsored a new survey and report…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
CFDs and Their Platforms in Germany
FXCM, an online provider of foreign exchange trading related services, announced January 6 that it has…
Asset Allocation
Nasdaq Puts Its Forex Plans on Hold
There is an ancient principle of prudence, “don’t fix what isn’t broken.” Thomas Jefferson alludes to it in…
Asset Allocation
How 'Fair' is New Chapter 11 Reform? New ABI Study Investigates
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: Another One Bites the Coal Dust.
Arch Coal, one of the biggest coal companies in The United States, entered Chapter 11 Monday morning, Jan 11…
State of the Industry, ESG
Jump Start Your Fund Marketing Tactics
By Diane Harrison 2016 will not offer an easy path to follow on the way to asset gathering. Effective…
State of the Industry
Get ready for ALTSLA 2016!
Manager Selection
A Perennial Gale Hits the Coffee Industry
The popularity of the drip coffee maker is in decline, or at least it has passed its peak.  In 2013. 58…