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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
Carried Interest Loophole: A Possible Twist in the Old Debate
It is an old favorite of tax reform wars: the subject of the favorable tax treatment of managing partners’…
Private Equity
GFIA Credits Japan Funds with Excellent Risk Management
GFIA, in its May 2014 “Research Insights,” reviewed the troubles of Japan’s equity markets in April and its…
Hedge Funds
The End of Paper Money
It’s quite conceivable that the grandparents (or even parents) of the future will be made to feel even more…
Asset Allocation
One Ordinary Week in the Life of Climate Change
(March 24 update) We present here recent anecdotals on the subject of climate change.  It's a topic that…
ESG
Commanding Capital: 7 Military Strategies for Acquiring Assets
By Diane Harrison Money is one of the driving forces of both business and warfare: he who amasses the most…
State of the Industry
SIFMA Wins a Famous Victory: We Sort it Out
A March 16, 2014 order by the Securities and Exchange Commission clears the way for further debate over the…
Access to Alternatives
Europe’s Valuation Practitioners Say: To Heck With Theory
A recent survey of firm-valuation experts from 10 European countries indicates that they can produce wildly…
Risk Management
Private Lawsuits Over Order Types Used to Facilitate HFT
Stanislav Dolgopolov’s recent paper for the Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, at the University of…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
The Hedge Fund Fee Conundrum
By Andrew Beer By one estimate, the hedge fund industry managed $2.6 trillion in capital at year-end 2013.…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
In-house [Im]Prop[er] Trading: Proceed with Caution
By Ginger Szala MF Global is one of the more blatant examples of the danger of banks and brokers…
Manager Selection
MiFID Implementation Consultation: A Rocky Start
The European Securities and Markets Authority kicked off the consultation process for the implementation of…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives