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Eurekahedge: All Regional Mandates Up for November
News from Venezuela and Argentina at last is such as to inspire more laughter than tears among investors. But…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Saudi Arabia: Opening to Distressed Debt Arb?
A recent article in The National Law Review says that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is about to change its…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
AIMA: 44% of Hedge Fund Firms Planning New Launches in 2016
A global survey by PwC and the Alternative Investment Management Association looks at the expansion of the…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Access to Alternatives
Bitcoin’s Founder: Recent History and 2020 Vision
Two things happened almost at once recently: Wired told us who actually invented bitcoin, (well, it gave the…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Alternative Asset Managers Feeling the Burn
By Diane Harrison As another year draws to a close, emerging hedge fund managers wrestle with how to grow…
Manager Selection
Institutions Thinking About Interest Rates and Volatility
Best performers Worst performers Global equities 42% Commodities 36% U.S. equities 33% Emerging market…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Large Pricing Errors
A recent paper by Raman Uppal of EDHEC Business School and Paolo Zaffaroni of Imperial College Business…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Enabling of the Hedge Fund Fraudsters, Part II
On Sept. 1, we posted here our notes on the case of Rizack et al v. Signature Bank et al. This, a lawsuit…
State of the Industry
Delaware’s Supreme Court Upholds Smack-down of RBC
In a decision that fund managers invested in the equities of Delaware chartered corporations, especially…
Risk Management, Manager Selection
For Practitioners of Risk Parity: Don’t Panic
I’ve written about Risk Parity here before. Cliff Asness has kindly given me a chance to do so again, with a…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Attack of the Activists: October Setback for NexPoint Still a Setback in November
The latest twist in the ongoing struggle for control of TICC Capital Corp., a business development company…
Access to Alternatives
Clash of the Hedge Funds: BioPharm Wars
A fascinating back-and-forth has broken out over the prospects of Clovis Oncology (NASDAQ: CLVS), a Boulder…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
DB Global Prime: Hedge Funds See Steady Combined Inflows, But Lots of Action
The combined inflows of equity, bond, and hybrid hedge funds have been remarkably steady over the last 10…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
India: The Way Up and the Way Down Are Not the Same
Two scholars affiliated with the University of Delhi India contend in a newly published paper that the case…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, ESG, Asset Allocation
McKinsey Report Declares North American Asset Management in 'Robust' Health
The Challenges that Come With Robust Health A new report from McKinsey says that the asset management…
State of the Industry