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What is Right & What is Wrong With the Sharpe Ratio?
William Sharpe’s 1975 article, “Adjusting for Risk in Portfolio Performance Measurement,” applied Harry…
Risk Management
Eurex Clearing and DB Group: New Paper on CCPs
The Deutsche Börse Group and Eurex Clearing have together issued a white paper on “How central counter-…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
All Regional Mandates in Positive Territory YTD
Global equity markets are doing well now and the hedge fund industry benefits. That’s the gist of the latest…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Deutsche Bank on Investor Demands Today
Demand produces its own supply. That is the contrary of Says Law, and it is the moral of Deutsche Bank’s new…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Alternative Investments: Why Do We Care
By Jeff Malec, CAIA CEO, Founding Partner Attain Capital Management, LLC I’m a philosophy major, so I’ll…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A Challenge to Bayesian Probability
A surprising dust-up in the blogosphere in recent days concerns Thomas Bayes, and the distinctive branch of…
Risk Management, Manager Selection
Winner Takes All, and Liquidity Takers Win
A new report stresses the extent to which the world of high-frequency trading is winner-take-all. Three…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Looking at the Future of World Wealth McKinsey-style
McKinsey has published a Private Banking Survey, part of a series it initiated in 2002. The gist of this one…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
AIFMD Depositary: Developing an operating model
*By Shane Brett of Global Perspectives and Alan Meaney of Fund Recs Depositary Lite vs. Full Depositary The…
Access to Alternatives
Volcker: 'The Kind of Stuff You’re Being Taught'
Before he goes down in history books as the man behind the “Volcker rule,” that is, behind the effort to…
Asset Allocation
Deal Activity: Beer and Obamacare Both Factor In
The new Intralinks Deal Flow Indicator report merits study by alpha hunters who look for promising mergers…
Private Equity, Asset Allocation
Regulatory reporting - key considerations for fund managers and service providers
The growth of numerous regulatory initiatives over the last few years has led to a number of new reporting…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Does the Defined-Contribution Broom Still Sweep All Before It?
“The New York Times froze the pension benefits for non-union employees, and we were determined that they…
State of the Industry
Why Yellen is Wrong on 'Resilience'
In her recent Michel Camdessus Central Banking Lecture, Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen stressed the…
Asset Allocation
Time for the Alternative Investment Industry to Grow Up
 By Bob Swarup, CAIA* The alternative fund industry is remarkably immature – a fact that can be put down…
Hedge Funds