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Investment Advisors, Investors and Beauty Contests
Wealth Management Unwrapped is Charlotte B. Beyer’s new book about how high-net-worth individuals ought to go…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
The Building of an Infrastructure for Renewables: A Report
A new Preqin report discusses the rate of private fund investment in the infrastructure associated with…
Private Equity, Infrastructure, ESG
Is it Time to Re-Design our Markets?
Modern markets are hugely complex environments. CME Group, for example, trades in excess of three billion…
Asset Allocation
GFIA Hedge Fund Manager Review: The End of an Era
For years now, the Singapore-based hedge fund advisor GFIA has sent out its monthly report, Research Insights…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Undead Enron Model Returns to the World above Ground
Our readers are probably aware by now that Mercuria has closed on its purchase of JP Morgan’s energy trading…
Access to Alternatives
Thoughts about Latest Insider-Trading Scandal
A front-page story in The Wall Street Journal for Wednesday, October 29 discussed possible insider trading in…
Hedge Funds
Central Clearing and the Bank of England
A new Financial Stability Paper from the Bank of England offers some re-assurance about the adequacy of the ‘…
Risk Management
Hedge vs. Mutual Funds and the 'Timing of Information Acquisition'
A recent paper by Nathan Swen, of the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, compares the “timing…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Microfinance and Its Critics: An Update
On August 15, 2014, an official of the Bank of Papua New Guinea spoke at the opening of the Women’s Micro…
ESG, Asset Allocation
Two Types of Secrecy: Proprietary Trading Data and the Doomsday Book
Unseal the Doomsday book! Yes, though, I know: governments never run out of excuses to keep secrets. Further…
Access to Alternatives
Hedge Funds and Position Crowding
By Andrew Beer As of mid-month October, the S&P 500 was down over 5% and the MSCI World was down 6%. In…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
November Vote: Do the Swiss Believe in Gold?
Early this month the price of gold dipped briefly below $1,200 an ounce. Since then it has risen, not all…
Asset Allocation
Hedge Funds: Good Run for India, but Troubles in Brazil
 The independent data provider Eurekahedge says in its most recent report that funds investing in India…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Detroit Bankruptcy: Foes Become Allies
Detroit filed for bankruptcy court protection in July 2013. In December, challenges to its eligibility for…
Manager Selection
Liquidity Makers and Takers: A Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Economics, formally the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives