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Part II: Structured Seed Capital: Capturing Technology Start-ups In Optimized Clusters
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
Part I: Nuggets vs. Pioneers: Is Venture Capital Dying?
By John Bhakdi Venture Capital is dead – that could be the headline of the extensive Kauffman report from May…
23 May 2013Private Equity
CFTC Approves New Swaps Rules: Uses Some Old Jargon
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
Parking Lot Arbitrage: The Latest Trend in Indian Real Estate
With the real estate sector slowing down after the 2008 boom, investors in the sector are trying new and…
21 May 2013Real Estate
Doing Penance for the Draw-down
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
Crisis is the Health of the Central Banks
The weekend Wall Street Journal for May 18-19, 2013 brought with it a magazine supplement, and with that came…
20 May 2013
PrevInvest: Fishing for Yield in a World of Liquidity
A recent publication on hedge fund strategies posits on one hand that continuous monetary easing actions by…
19 May 2013Asset Allocation
Abstraction, Patents, and the Latest Alice Ruling: A Scorecard
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 Mere Whisper of the Name 'Soros'
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 EU’s AIFMD and Your Road Show
The Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive comes into effect in the European Union this July.…
14 May 2013Access to Alternatives
The Extraterritorial Effect of Swaps Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed on May 1 a new set of rules and interpretive guidance to ease…
13 May 2013Hedge Funds
A Reductionist View of BAB, Debunked
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
Merger Arb: Dampers and Bright Spots
A recent publication on merger arbitrage strategies makes the case that global M&A activity will “remain…
09 May 2013Hedge Funds
The Cauldron of Contemporary Trading Technology
Questions abound about the structures of exchanges, the prevalence of off-exchange platforms, and the…
08 May 2013
A Bayesian Rethinks CAPM
D.J. Johnstone, a professor at the University of Sydney Business School in Sydney, Australia, is re-working…
07 May 2013Risk Management