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A Defeat, but Not a Rout, for Appraisal Arb
The law firm Wachtell Lipton, for decades now a powerful advocate for corporate managements against…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Two Intralinks Stories: A New Product, a Continuing Trend
In one recent development, Intralinks, a provider of virtual data rooms that support mergers and acquisitions…
Hedge Funds
Women in Senior Roles in Alternative Finance: The Marathon Continues
First: I have to protest on a matter of vocabulary. No matter how completely lost a battle this is, it is…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Does Private Real Estate Actually Have a Low Correlation with Public Real Estate?
The actual return correlation between two assets has nothing to do with whether they’re listed (public) or…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
5 Insights on a Hedge Fund Outlook
By Diane Harrison Every year, Preqin publishes their annual review of the hedge fund industry, 120-plus pages…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Gazelles, Exports, and Infrastructure: A View from the UK
A new paper from the Confederation of British Industry looks at three policy issues that ought to concern…
Infrastructure
Alpha, Love, and Marriage
Personal distractions lessen a manager’s ability to produce alpha. This is true of both happy and unhappy…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
After the Balkan Adventure: A Bad Bank Gets Worse
The Austrian Financial Market Authority pulled the plug on Austria’s “bad bank” on March 1. This is the end…
Private Equity, Asset Allocation
Why Constraints on Hedge Funds Matter
By Andrew Beer Investors and managers find themselves at an interesting inflection point in the evolution of…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Skorina Report: Divestment vs. Fiduciary Duty Whose Money is it?
What the divestment debate comes down to is how boards define their fiduciary duty. [Spoiler: We don't think…
State of the Industry, Risk Management
Twitter for Geriatric (over 35) Investment Managers
We first learned about sex from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  It was really slow going and overly…
Hedge Funds
AIMA Reports: Activist Hedge Funds are the Good Guys
The Alternative Investment Management Association in a new paper credits “activist engagement by hedge funds…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Next Big Thing: A Robotic ‘Nexus’ of Contracts
The next big wave of innovation to hit the financial world is likely the automation of much of the decision-…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Do you like or dislike equity?
Traditional stock pickers live in a world that is analogous to Facebook. The average mutual fund manager…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Long-Term Infrastructure Debt: The Valuation Issue
The EDHEC-Risk Institute has issued a new paper on an old problem, how one can go about valuing…
Infrastructure, Hedge Funds