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By John Bhadki
In 2010, we started the development of i2X by taking a deeper look into the economics of seed…
27 May 2013Private Equity, Hedge Funds

By John Bhakdi
Venture Capital is dead – that could be the headline of the extensive Kauffman report from May…
23 May 2013Private Equity

Why do so many people use the word “methodology” when the word “method” would work just fine? I don’t have a…
22 May 2013Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives

With the real estate sector slowing down after the 2008 boom, investors in the sector are trying new and…
21 May 2013Real Estate

A new paper by David H. Bailey and Marcos Lopez de Prado suggests that one of the consequences of over-…
20 May 2013Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds

The weekend Wall Street Journal for May 18-19, 2013 brought with it a magazine supplement, and with that came…
20 May 2013

A recent publication on hedge fund strategies posits on one hand that continuous monetary easing actions by…
19 May 2013Asset Allocation

Whew. This one’s confusing.
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in a badly split decision issued May 10th,…
16 May 2013Access to Alternatives

The recent rumors that George Soros was involved in a big way in the fall off the Australian dollar sent us…
15 May 2013Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation

The Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive comes into effect in the European Union this July.…
14 May 2013Access to Alternatives

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed on May 1 a new set of rules and interpretive guidance to ease…
13 May 2013Hedge Funds

Clifford S. Asness and two associates have made the case in a recent paper not only that a strategy of…
12 May 2013Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation

A recent publication on merger arbitrage strategies makes the case that global M&A activity will “remain…
09 May 2013Hedge Funds

Questions abound about the structures of exchanges, the prevalence of off-exchange platforms, and the…
08 May 2013

D.J. Johnstone, a professor at the University of Sydney Business School in Sydney, Australia, is re-working…
07 May 2013Risk Management