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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,…
Access to Alternatives
Asia’s Stories: Equities, Wages, Exports
Hyung Jin Lee, portfolio manager at The Asia Pacific Fund Inc. (NYSE: APB), a, equity-oriented fund,…
Hedge Funds
A Plea to the Retail Investors
Bob Rice, author of The Alternative Answer, is Managing Partner of Tangent Capital and is known to viewers of…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Supreme Court Accepts Fidelity Whistle-Blower Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case concerning the rights of whistle blowers under Sarbanes-…
Access to Alternatives
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…
Asset Allocation
Part III: The Future of Venture Capital: A New Path to Growth
By John Bhakdi In Part II: Structured Seed Capital, we have seen how a Structured Seed Capital framework…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Part II: Structured Seed Capital: Capturing Technology Start-ups In Optimized Clusters
By John Bhadki In 2010, we started the development of i2X by taking a deeper look into the economics of seed…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds
Part I: Nuggets vs. Pioneers: Is Venture Capital Dying?
By John Bhakdi Venture Capital is dead – that could be the headline of the extensive Kauffman report…
Private Equity
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