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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
Unseal the Doomsday book! Yes, though, I know: governments never run out of excuses to keep secrets. Further…
Access to Alternatives
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
Early this month the price of gold dipped briefly below $1,200 an ounce. Since then it has risen, not all…
Asset Allocation
 The independent data provider Eurekahedge says in its most recent report that funds investing in India…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Detroit filed for bankruptcy court protection in July 2013. In December, challenges to its eligibility for…
Manager Selection
The Nobel Prize in Economics, formally the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
By Diane Harrison While reading "Swimming to Antarctica," the autobiography of Lynne Cox, a a long-distance…
Manager Selection
Is there a bubble in oil and gas stock prices? And is it now bursting? Those are pertinent questions in the…
Hedge Funds
When does it make sense for an asset manager to customize its risk model? And why? There are, after all, a…
Risk Management
In the words of Sir Walter Scott, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” A key…
Access to Alternatives
GFIA’s latest “Research Insights” begins with an essay that describes itself as “ruminative and wide-angled…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
“It’s late September and I really should be getting back to school,” sang Rod Stewart in Maggie Mae.…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
The ongoing exchange of briefs between the New York Attorney General and Barclays in a lawsuit over the HFT…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
A federal judge has ruled that a bitcoin mining company based in Overland Park , Kansas, with the wonderful…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives