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Don’t Blame the Swiss: Results Discounted Days Before Vote
The voters of Switzerland have rejected the “Save Our Swiss Gold” initiative, a political effort to force…
Asset Allocation
The need-to-knows of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs)
By Andrew Smith, CAIA Master Limited Partnerships, commonly referred to as MLPs are often viewed as a tax…
Hedge Funds
What Happens to Hedge Funds if 2008 Market Conditions Repeat?
By Don Steinbrugge With interest rates and credit spreads near historic lows and equity valuation above…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
The Best Offense is a Good Defense: Profiting from Hedging
This time of year one often encounters certain football-fans’ truisms. Sometimes one is told “the best…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
The Growing Problem of Calculating Performance Fees
Hedge funds’ performance fees are a key component of every fund’s Net Asset Valuation calculation. Since the…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Wars and Failed Mergers Make for a Tricky October
The data provider and analyst Eurekahedge, in its latest report, says that hedge funds posted negative…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Focus on U.S. Real Estate Benchmarks: Moody’s/RCA CPPI and CoStar CCRSI
By Brad Case, Ph.D., CFA, CAIA A variety of indices are published regularly and may be appropriate for…
Real Estate, Hedge Funds
The Economics of Happiness
Factory farming is a brutal endeavor.  In this environment, chickens (and other animals) are given a…
Hedge Funds
The Top 0.004%: The Wealth-X Report
Wealth-X has released its World Ultra Wealth Report 2014, noting that though the world’s Ultra High Net Worth…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Capital Markets, Derivatives and the Law
Evolution After Crisis By Alan N. Rechtschaffen 496 pages Oxford University Press Early on in his new book,…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Business Development Companies: The Basics
By Andrew Smith, CAIA The public consensus on Business Development Companies (BDCs) is that they are “the new…
Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
Mergers in Theory and Practice: Synchronicity and Synergy
Intralinks, in collaboration with the M&A Research Centre at Cass Business School, has produced the first…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Is Private Real Estate Actually Less Volatile than Public Real Estate?
By Brad Case, Ph.D., CFA, CAIAThere are three reasons why people have made the mistake of thinking that…
Real Estate, Asset Allocation
Big Data and Other Trends to Influence Hedge Funds in 2015
At a gathering at the Andaz Hotel in New York, October 22, a number of the alternative investment industry’s…
Hedge Funds
Extra! Extra! Central Banking the Disease It Affects to Cure
At the behest of the Bank of England, Anthony [Lord] Grabiner has studied whether, between 2005 and 2013, any…
Asset Allocation