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In the course of a busy news cycle, this tidbit was largely overlooked: in June 2014, Deutsche Bank raised $…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
By Don Steinbrugge Commodity trading advisors’ (CTAs) perception among investors is more divergent than any…
Hedge Funds
Only once in my life have I been the target of an accusation of plagiarism. That once: my accuser was an…
Emerging Asset Classes
By Andrew Smith, CAIA Given the recent economic turmoil globally, the low interest rate environment, and a…
Infrastructure, Real Estate, State of the Industry
By Charles Skorina May kicked off, as always, with the Woodstock of Capitalism in Omaha. 40,000 …
Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
A Canadian court and a U.S. court (in Ontario and Delaware respectively) have agreed on how the proceeds of…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A powerful trend in the courts of the Cayman Islands in recent litigation (since 2012) has run against the…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Eurekahedge, a fund data and research operation with which our readers are quite familiar, has joined with…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
By Andrew Beer THE INVESTOR AGGREGATION MODEL There is a strong argument that, on average, hedge fund fees…
Hedge Funds, Manager Selection, State of the Industry
Maneet Ahuja is going head-to-head with Jack D. Schwager, and his “wizards” books, in this new volume from…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The latest Eurekahedge report says that in April, Asia ex-Japan funds delivered the best returns in the hedge…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
An underlying fact, noted here for example by our own Shane Brett a year and a half ago, is that “the easiest…
Risk Management
Innovation is threatened by certain of the legal systems that were created to incentivize it. It is…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.--Benjamin Disraeli Investors equate “alpha”…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Northern Trust’s new report about transparency in hedge fund holdings reminds me somewhat of the opening…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation