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Advice for Pension Funds Who May Have Lost Their Way
Clear Path analysis, a think tank that seeks to “create industry debate and educate finance professionals,”…
Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
No More Double-speak, Please! 6 Questions You Need to Answer
By Diane Harrison While watching the recent Congressional Benghazi hearings drone along at a glacial pace, it…
State of the Industry
M&A: Are the Delaware Courts Becoming Intrusive?
A trend in Delaware’s corporate law subjects investment banks to increasing levels of civil liability for the…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Due Diligence Idea: Reverse Stultification and Bloat
Uncorrelated LLC, the institutional-investment think tank founded by Cathleen Rittereiser, has published a…
Risk Management, Manager Selection
Managing a Crisis Before it Manages You (video)
No one wants to prepare for a crisis, but what happens when your fund gets an SEC letter or when a reporter…
State of the Industry
The ‘Sin Stock’ Premium: A Neat Illusion Dismantled
Two scholars associated with the University of Reading’s ICMA Centre, in a new paper, take on the notion that…
ESG
The Skorina Report: The 'hoarding' hoax, 'excessive' private-equity fees and other confusions
By Charles Skorina Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of San Diego, expressed outrage this…
Private Equity
The Elusiveness of the Natural Block Trade
TABB ran a piece recently by their contributing analyst, Rebecca Healey, on the elusiveness of the “natural…
Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Study Shows Divergence in Fund Expense Disclosure
How many ways are there to list expenses? And how many different sorts of possible expenses could fund…
Risk Management
How Start-ups Are Influencing Alternative Assets (Video)
Every year there seems to be a record number of hedge fund start-ups, but the co-founder of Blue River…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds
Hedge Funds in a Time of Weakening Recovery
Eurekahedge reports that its hedge fund index fell into negative territory in September, though it did…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
The Skorina Report: Exodus From The Stanford Endowment
Robert F. Wallace, the new head of Stanford Management Company, has been aggressively culling his staff…
State of the Industry
AIMA Issues Guide for Liquid Alternative Funds
The Alternative Investment Management Association has issued a new guide concerning the development and…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
Looking a 'Gift' Horse in the Mouth: The Latest on Section 363
L. John Bird, a lawyer with Fox Rothschild LLP in Wilmington, Delaware, and a prolific blogger, writes that…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
The End of the Oil Major?
By James Stafford A new report finds that the largest oil companies are set to cut spending on exploration by…
Asset Allocation