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Below you’ll find a chart that covers one year in the life of the Nikkei 225, concluding June 27, 2014. It is…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
As Brendan Conway aptly observed in Barron’s, late last year, there are “too many hedge funds with too much…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Hedge Funds
On Monday, June 16th, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a stunningly complete victory for NML Capital, the…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Don’t fence us in. Our alpha-hunting readers, as a matter of routine, use a variety of settlement systems,…
Emerging Asset Classes, Access to Alternatives
Certain short sellers seem to act on the principle that if a public corporation has a great attachment to…
Hedge Funds
The independent data provider Eurekahedge tells us in its latest report that alternative investment vehicles…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Back in 1950, scientist Alan Turing, pictured here, proposed an operational test of whether a machine can…
Access to Alternatives
Money is a strange phenomenon. Our modern notion of it mean that (in essence) it is intrinsically useless…
Access to Alternatives, Asset Allocation
Last year legendary investor Warren Buffett, with help from a law professor, Lawrence Cunningham, brought out…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Many investors understandably don’t want to make an investment at all if they’re going to end up in the…
Private Equity, Infrastructure
Many of recent history’s most significant market events have manifest in what was (previously) the extreme of…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
By Rick Ehrhart, JD A long-standing drawback of hedge fund incentive compensation has finally reached a…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Two economists at the Division of International Finance, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, have…
Access to Alternatives
It is an old favorite of tax reform wars: the subject of the favorable tax treatment of managing partners’…
Private Equity
GFIA, in its May 2014 “Research Insights,” reviewed the troubles of Japan’s equity markets in April and its…
Hedge Funds