Portfolio for the Future™

By Andrew Smith, CAIA Master Limited Partnerships, commonly referred to as MLPs are often viewed as a tax…

By Don Steinbrugge With interest rates and credit spreads near historic lows and equity valuation above…

This time of year one often encounters certain football-fans’ truisms. Sometimes one is told “the best…

Hedge funds’ performance fees are a key component of every fund’s Net Asset Valuation calculation. Since the…

The data provider and analyst Eurekahedge, in its latest report, says that hedge funds posted negative…

By Brad Case, Ph.D., CFA, CAIA A variety of indices are published regularly and may be appropriate for…

Factory farming is a brutal endeavor.  In this environment, chickens (and other animals) are given a…

Wealth-X has released its World Ultra Wealth Report 2014, noting that though the world’s Ultra High Net Worth…

Evolution After Crisis By Alan N. Rechtschaffen 496 pages Oxford University Press Early on in his new book,…

By Andrew Smith, CAIA The public consensus on Business Development Companies (BDCs) is that they are “the new…

Intralinks, in collaboration with the M&A Research Centre at Cass Business School, has produced the first…

By Brad Case, Ph.D., CFA, CAIAThere are three reasons why people have made the mistake of thinking that…

At a gathering at the Andaz Hotel in New York, October 22, a number of the alternative investment industry’s…

At the behest of the Bank of England, Anthony [Lord] Grabiner has studied whether, between 2005 and 2013, any…

For those who believe that bitcoin, or some virtual currency akin to bitcoin, represents the future of human…