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Time-series Momentum: Venerability, Vulnerability and Scholarship
Time-series momentum is a very venerable strategy, especially in the commodities world.  By virtue of a…
Asset Allocation
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, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
New Route for China’s Investors to the Rest of World
Kenny Lam explains the Qingdao Pilot Operation in the latest (Q3 2015) issue of the AIMA Journal. All the…
Asset Allocation
So, what is reinsurance anyway?
By Don Steinbrugge Reinsurance is one of the few hedge fund strategies that has almost no correlation to the…
Emerging Asset Classes
KPMG and Beschloss on Alternatives, Interest Rates and Women
A new white paper from KPMG discusses both the challenges and the opportunities facing women in the…
Hedge Funds
Corporate Governance: The Chairman/CEO Thing at Bank of America
I have to wonder: aren’t corporate governance and specifically the recent dispute over Bank of America,…
Asset Allocation
The Big Short: The Trailer
The Big Short, Michael Lewis’ idiosyncratic take on the derivatives/financial crises of 2007-08, always read…
Asset Allocation
API: An Emerging Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market
That historic Armonk-headquartered company, IBM, says that it believes application programming interfaces (…
Asset Allocation
New Mutual-Fund Industry Whistle Blower Case
A district court in New York has decided that Mary Anthony is not a “whistle blower” of the sort protected by…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Risk Parity: Riding an Unpleasant Arc
The risk parity strategy has been around at least since the mid-1990s. According to the origin story…
Asset Allocation
How Public Pensions Are Getting Smart About Infrastructure
By Jill Eicher By cutting out the middlemen, our pension funds are harnessing the power of their capital.…
State of the Industry
Why is Japan’s Recovery So Sluggish?
A new working paper from the International Monetary Fund engages with some of the fundamental issues with…
Asset Allocation
BATS, Spoofing, and Shifting Definitions
T. Leuchtkafer, a New York-based investor and a frequent commenter on various Securities and Exchange…
Asset Allocation
Blame China; Blame the US Fed, whatever … August Hedge Fund Numbers Stunk
According to the latest report from Eurekahedge, the hedge fund industry outperformed underlying markets in…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Taxation of Carried Interest: A New Republican Idea
The second Republican debate, on September 16th, involved an exchange on the taxation of hedge fund managers…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives