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The End of Paper Money
It’s quite conceivable that the grandparents (or even parents) of the future will be made to feel even more…
Asset Allocation
One Ordinary Week in the Life of Climate Change
(March 24 update) We present here recent anecdotals on the subject of climate change.  It's a topic that…
ESG
Commanding Capital: 7 Military Strategies for Acquiring Assets
By Diane Harrison Money is one of the driving forces of both business and warfare: he who amasses the most…
State of the Industry
SIFMA Wins a Famous Victory: We Sort it Out
A March 16, 2014 order by the Securities and Exchange Commission clears the way for further debate over the…
Access to Alternatives
Europe’s Valuation Practitioners Say: To Heck With Theory
A recent survey of firm-valuation experts from 10 European countries indicates that they can produce wildly…
Risk Management
Private Lawsuits Over Order Types Used to Facilitate HFT
Stanislav Dolgopolov’s recent paper for the Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, at the University of…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
The Hedge Fund Fee Conundrum
By Andrew Beer By one estimate, the hedge fund industry managed $2.6 trillion in capital at year-end 2013.…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
In-house [Im]Prop[er] Trading: Proceed with Caution
By Ginger Szala MF Global is one of the more blatant examples of the danger of banks and brokers…
Manager Selection
MiFID Implementation Consultation: A Rocky Start
The European Securities and Markets Authority kicked off the consultation process for the implementation of…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
In SEC Filing, Ackman Makes His Case
At least Valeant is now trying to make money the old-fashioned way: by buying an operation that knows how it’…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
China’s Oil Giant At Center Of Corruption Probe
By Ky Krauthamer Grins were on the faces of China National Petroleum executives this week as they celebrated…
Contexts for Population Growth, U.S. and China Co-Dependence, Fracking
Big Picture Economics How to Navigate the New Global Economy By Joel L. Naroff and Ron Scherer 234 pages John…
Asset Allocation
The Skorina Report: Endowment Performance at Flagship State Schools
The super-endowments of the traditional Private Ivys -- like Harvard and Yale -- are always closely watched,…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Brave Phalanx: Asian Managers & Investors Remain Undaunted
GFIA, in its April 2014 “Research Insights,” reviews Asian asset managers and their results for March. Let’s…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
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