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A Nordic View of Banking Union
Pentti Hakkarainen, deputy governor of the Bank of Finland, spoke recently on the prospects for a banking…
Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Index Provider Transparency: End Users Unimpressed
EDHEC-Risk Institute recently surveyed institutions around Europe for their views on the transparency and…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
McGonagle Testifies to the Michael Lewis Hearings
On May 13, the director of the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight addressed the Agriculture Committee of the…
Access to Alternatives
Stiglitz Against Austerity: For the Consolidation of Europe
On May 5, Joseph Stiglitz spoke in Rome, Italy, at least on one level addressing the question: Can the euro…
Asset Allocation
Chopping Hedge Fund Data and Joining a Choir
The independent data provider Eurekahedge has issued a report on the world’s hedge fund industry, telling us…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Why are Hedge Fund Assets Reaching All-time Highs?
By Don Steinbrugge, CFA There is a constant flood of articles in the media articulating that hedge funds…
Asset Allocation, Hedge Funds, Manager Selection, State of the Industry
What Will Drive ETF Growth? Not Active Management
Pimco announced recently (in a January 24th filing with the SEC) that it is going to expand its offerings of…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Climate Change: the Science that Dare Not Speak Its Name
The plot so far:  In an AAA piece about Frankenstorm, we suggested that the disconnect between the view…
ESG
Axioma on those Low-Vol Picnic Baskets
Our regular readers will remember that we have discussed low-vol strategies here before, as recently as…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Alternative Entrepreneurs Generating Alpha
By Andrew Cohan, Macoma Capital Group In today’s challenging hunt for alpha, investors are finding that…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
East Asian Chickens Come Home to Roost
East Asian pension systems face an on-rushing demographic crunch, compounded by certain long-venerated…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Better Portfolio Management through Music Appreciation
by Doug Friedenberg We were fortunate enough to hear and see a concert by David Byrne and St. Vincent…
Hedge Funds
Stop Loss (and Gain) Rules as Alpha Generators
Austin Shelton, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, has applied quantitative rigor to the…
State of the Industry, Risk Management
The Morgans Hotel Group Fight: Part Two
 We recently discussed here an important decision by the Delaware Chancery Court arising out of a proxy…
Private Equity
The Morgans Hotel Group Fight: Part One
Activist investors, or anyone invested in a fund [especially of the PE or VC variety] that follows an…
Private Equity