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Japan’s Largest Banks Invest in the Solar Industry, Expecting a Huge Boom in 2013
By Charles Kennedy, Oilprice.com The solar subsidy program that the Japanese government started in July 2012…
12 February 2013ESG, State of the Industry
UCITS Brand: Time for a Restricted Extension
EDHEC-Risk, in collaboration with CACEIS Investor Services, the asset-servicing group affiliated with Credit…
11 February 2013Access to Alternatives
Can Leak Detection End the Pipeline Impasse? Interview with Adrian Banica
By James Stafford Pipelines used to be things that were just built without blinking. It is said that there…
10 February 2013
College Endowments: Bad News and a Slender Silver Lining
The 2012 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments indicates that the endowments of the 831 U.S. colleges and…
07 February 2013Hedge Funds, State of the Industry
HF Investors and Managers Differ On Impact of New Regulations
Hedge fund managers are a good deal more apprehensive about the consequences of newly imposed regulations in…
06 February 2013Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Pensions: Public Choices and Investor Caution
A new study by EDHEC-Risk Institute urges investors to be more vigilant about pension liabilities when making…
05 February 2013State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
Portfolio Risk: The Case for Outsourcing
FinCad, in a recent white paper, maintains that many companies are leaving cost-effectiveness gains on the…
04 February 2013Hedge Funds
Intermediaries: Watch Who You’re Calling Sophisticated
The International Organization of Securities Commissions published a report recently (January 21) on the…
03 February 2013Access to Alternatives
Risk Management versus Risk Mitigation & Absolute Return versus Hedge Funds
By Rene Levesque The AIMA, with the support of Deutsche Bank, recently commissioned its 2012 edition of the…
31 January 2013Hedge Funds
Beyond the Amusement Value of Icahn v. Ackman
In a perfect world … no, check that: in a world even slightly better than this one, it would have been a…
30 January 2013Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Political Implications of America's Oil & Gas Boom
By James Stafford, Oilprice.com As we begin a new year we wanted to take a look at the current energy…
29 January 2013
Investing in Britain’s Infrastructure: With and Without Guarantees
The National Audit Office of the government of the UK (their GAO, if you will) has expressed its concern that…
28 January 2013Infrastructure, State of the Industry
A Look at the World Diamond Market
Diamonds are one of the world's most precious natural resources.  These unique stones are almost as old as…
27 January 2013Hedge Funds
DRC: Finding Red Flags in the ADVs
Diligence Review Corp., a due-diligence oriented research firm established two years ago, has issued a report…
24 January 2013Manager Selection
The Superstition of Mean Reversion: JPMorgan Edition
JPMorgan Chase has recently released a task force report (132 pages long) about the losses it suffered in its…
23 January 2013Hedge Funds