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Questions in Risk: The Different Faces of Private Equity Investing
By Donna Marie Howe, CFA Last week when we met, one of my friends (Jim Purnell, CRO at Kenmar Group) and I…
Risk Management, Private Equity
GMI Numbers-Crunching Predicts Stock Returns
Nobody ever said winning alpha was going to be easy. Among the people who don’t say that, count the author of…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Japanese Investors Sticking with Hedge Funds, Expect Nikkei Rise
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
Industry Discovery: Maturity is a Pain
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
SCOTUS Gives NML a Sweeping Win Over Argentina
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
Isn’t all Software Abstract?: A Meditation on Alice Corp.
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
Does a Firm Insist on Historical Cost Accounting? Short!
Certain short sellers seem to act on the principle that if a public corporation has a great attachment to…
Hedge Funds
Eurekahedge: Vehicles Ran More Smoothly in May Than In…
The independent data provider Eurekahedge tells us in its latest report that alternative investment vehicles…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
'I, Algorithm' Or, Can the Mindless be Reckless?
Back in 1950, scientist Alan Turing, pictured here, proposed an operational test of whether a machine can…
Access to Alternatives
Could Crypto-currency Disrupt Money?
Money is a strange phenomenon. Our modern notion of it mean that (in essence) it is intrinsically useless…
Access to Alternatives, Asset Allocation
Remembering Enron and Contending with Warren Buffett
Last year legendary investor Warren Buffett, with help from a law professor, Lawrence Cunningham, brought out…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
EDHEC: Investors Who Don’t Want to be Mushrooms Need Benchmarks
Many investors understandably don’t want to make an investment at all if they’re going to end up in the…
Private Equity, Infrastructure
Could Random Trading Prevent Stock Market Bubbles & Crashes?
Many of recent history’s most significant market events have manifest in what was (previously) the extreme of…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A Far-sighted View: Fund Alignment Rights Are Wave of the Future
By Rick Ehrhart, JD A long-standing drawback of hedge fund incentive compensation has finally reached a…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Loosening the Bank/Sovereign Feedback Loop
Two economists at the Division of International Finance, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, have…
Access to Alternatives