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CFTC Approves New Swaps Rules: Uses Some Old Jargon
Why do so many people use the word “methodology” when the word “method” would work just fine? I don’t have a…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Parking Lot Arbitrage: The Latest Trend in Indian Real Estate
With the real estate sector slowing down after the 2008 boom, investors in the sector are trying new and…
Real Estate
Doing Penance for the Draw-down
A new paper by David H. Bailey and Marcos Lopez de Prado suggests that one of the consequences of over-…
Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Crisis is the Health of the Central Banks
The weekend Wall Street Journal for May 18-19, 2013 brought with it a magazine supplement, and with that came…
PrevInvest: Fishing for Yield in a World of Liquidity
A recent publication on hedge fund strategies posits on one hand that continuous monetary easing actions by…
Asset Allocation
Abstraction, Patents, and the Latest Alice Ruling: A Scorecard
Whew. This one’s confusing. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in a badly split decision issued May 10th,…
Access to Alternatives
The Mere Whisper of the Name 'Soros'
The recent rumors that George Soros was involved in a big way in the fall off the Australian dollar sent us…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The EU’s AIFMD and Your Road Show
The Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive comes into effect in the European Union this July.…
Access to Alternatives
The Extraterritorial Effect of Swaps Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed on May 1 a new set of rules and interpretive guidance to ease…
Hedge Funds
A Reductionist View of BAB, Debunked
Clifford S. Asness and two associates have made the case in a recent paper not only that a strategy of…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Merger Arb: Dampers and Bright Spots
A recent publication on merger arbitrage strategies makes the case that global M&A activity will “remain…
Hedge Funds
The Cauldron of Contemporary Trading Technology
Questions abound about the structures of exchanges, the prevalence of off-exchange platforms, and the…
A Bayesian Rethinks CAPM
D.J. Johnstone, a professor at the University of Sydney Business School in Sydney, Australia, is re-working…
Risk Management
Unlocking Alpha in the New Normal
By Louis Lovas, Director of Solutions, OneMarketData If there’s one thing firms must have a strong grasp on…
Going Public: Endowment performance at our great state universities
By Charles Skorina In our last letter we took a hard look at recent investment performance among the eight…
Manager Selection