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Authorities Offer Revisionism About Flash Crash
So now there’s a new theory about the “flash crash” on 2010. I thought we had this one straightened out. It…
Hedge Funds
Aleynikov’s Trial and My Cousin Vinnie
Prosecutors keep trying to ensure that Sergey Aleynikov is treated as a criminal for allegedly attempting to…
Emerging Asset Classes, Access to Alternatives
Tax & Election Seasons Create Alternative Altercations in the US
The end of tax season and the start of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President nearly coincided this year,…
Real Estate, Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
Larry Fink Thinks 'The Market Is Wrong' on Greece
By the time the talk between Maria Bartiromo and Larry Fink got underway, nearly half an hour before the…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Eurelectric Speaks Up For Grushenka
Sometimes I can’t help but think of a passage from The Brothers Karamazov: “It was known too that the young…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Latest News from Italian Banking and the Dane-geld
Rudyard Kipling famously warned that once a nation starts “paying the Dane-geld” it will never get rid of the…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
They Do It Right Down Under: Australian Institutional Funds
A new paper by two scholars affiliated with the University of New South Wales compares Australian…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
When I Learned Truth About RadioShack
RadioShack’s final decline, the long-delayed visit from karma if you will, had a lot to do with inept…
Hedge Funds
EDHEC: Geography is Not Just a Listing or Headquarters
In a new report, five scholars affiliated with EDHEC Risk Institute, find that for many equities, the ‘…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Liquidity, Leverage and Those Nimble Hedge Funds
The Q1 2015 issue of AIMA Journal, the issue that marks that association’s 25th anniversary, includes an…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
John H. Makin, Hedge Fund Economist/Principal, Defender of U.S. Fed
John Makin, an economist and hedge fund principal who has become known in recent years as an all-too-…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Zulauf Sees Unprecedented Risks: Zhou Fears Deflation
The head of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, says that China must be “vigilant to see if the…
Asset Allocation
EDHEC: Smart Beta Indexes May Be On a Launch Pad
EDHEC-Risk Institute surveyed 222 European ETF investors and found a lot of support for some innovative…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Reflections on the MS Internet Explorer, R.I.P.
Microsoft has now announced a phase out of its long-term workhorse browser, Internet Explorer, in favor of…
Access to Alternatives
M&A: a Continuing Trend According To Survey
In one recent development, Intralinks, a provider of virtual data rooms that support mergers and acquisitions…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation