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Rice Elucidates Views on Managed Futures, Retail Investors
At the beginning of June, we ran a review of Bob Rice’s recent book, The Alternative Answer, just out from…
Hedge Funds
Christmas in Cambridge: HMC gives themselves a raise
By Charles Skorina Reporter Dawn Lim at Foundation and Endowment Intelligence has just obtained the latest…
State of the Industry
More on the Post-Keynesian Smackdown: Subway Tokens Edition
I’d like to supplement my earlier observations about the debate hosted by Columbia Law School on June 3 over…
Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
New Tweaks to MiFID/MiFIR Recall College Daze
Certain contemporary developments in Europe remind me of an incident that took place while I was attending…
Access to Alternatives
A New Study Looks at Executive Pay
By Vikas Shah There is little doubt that we are facing tough times for the economy.  Rising unemployment…
Manager Selection
Natixis on Investing by ‘Road Maps:’ Institutional Cartographic Confidence
When I think of a “road map” I have a very old-school image in mind, one of those fold-up things drivers used…
Asset Allocation, Hedge Funds, State of the Industry
Marketing Closer or Poseur? How to Identify the First and Avoid the Second
By Diane Harrison A universal theme in alternative assets is investor money looking for a place to land.…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Squeezed Margins and a Move to the Clouds
The archeologists of the distant future will no doubt tell of the great 21st shift of the human race from…
Manager Selection, Infrastructure
Post-Keynesian Smackdown at Columbia
Columbia Law School hosted a revealing debate June 3 between prominent advocates of two sharply opposed…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Natural-Language Processing: After the Initial Buzz
A new white paper from Deutsche Bank Markets Research cautions traders that although they can enhance the…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
PrevInvest: No Wind in Sails of Long/Short Equity
PrevInvest, in its May 2013 Investment Themes, provides a discussion of why long/short equity, also known as…
Hedge Funds
Push-back Grows Against the FTT and Its Cascade
A financial transaction tax goes into effect in some parts of the EU on January 1, 2014: unless, that is, the…
Access to Alternatives
The Wind and the Leaves: Causality in Commodity Prices
Benoit Guilleminot and two colleagues have written a working paper on the impact of index flows on…
Hedge Funds
Preqin on Global Alternative Assets and Learning Curves
Preqin, the multi-national data and consulting firm, in its newly released 2013 “Global Alternatives Report…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds
Push-back Grows Against the FTT and Its Cascade
A financial transaction tax goes into effect in some parts of the EU on January 1, 2014: unless, that is, the…
Access to Alternatives