Portfolio for the Future™

A new report by Greenwich Associates looks at the pros and cons of central clearing from the point of view of…

KPMG, the Managed Funds Association, and the Alternative Investment Management Association have jointly…

Authorities released last month a review of Europe’s 2010 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or…

The law firm Wachtell Lipton, for decades now a powerful advocate for corporate managements against…

In one recent development, Intralinks, a provider of virtual data rooms that support mergers and acquisitions…

First: I have to protest on a matter of vocabulary. No matter how completely lost a battle this is, it is…

The actual return correlation between two assets has nothing to do with whether they’re listed (public) or…

By Diane Harrison Every year, Preqin publishes their annual review of the hedge fund industry, 120-plus pages…

A new paper from the Confederation of British Industry looks at three policy issues that ought to concern…

Personal distractions lessen a manager’s ability to produce alpha. This is true of both happy and unhappy…

The Austrian Financial Market Authority pulled the plug on Austria’s “bad bank” on March 1. This is the end…

By Andrew Beer Investors and managers find themselves at an interesting inflection point in the evolution of…

What the divestment debate comes down to is how boards define their fiduciary duty. [Spoiler: We don't think…

We first learned about sex from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  It was really slow going and overly…

The Alternative Investment Management Association in a new paper credits “activist engagement by hedge funds…