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Private Equity and the Law in India
A forthcoming article in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law discusses the investor…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Private Debt
Oil & Gas: Where is the Capital Flowing?
The last two years have seen record low levels of mergers and acquisitions activity in the oil and gas sector…
State of the Industry, Private Equity
The Dangers and Attractions of Infrastructure Investing
An arm of Brookfield Asset Management, Brookfield Infrastructure, announced that it is leading a group of…
State of the Industry, Infrastructure
Net Performance Reporting: Not Just Arithmetic
Why can’t a fund manager simply subtract all fees and expenses from gross returns and present the…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
The Environmental Road to the Future is Paved…in Green
By Diane Harrison In January of this year, the World Economic Forum published an article, A Business Model…
State of the Industry, ESG
SOS
By Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association Ask someone of a certain generation to name the most common worldwide…
Access to Alternatives, Asset Allocation, State of the Industry, Educational Alpha
How to Improve Your Short-Selling Batting Average
Downside Protection: Process and Tenets for Short Selling in All Market Environments is the new book by Nitin…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Mind the Gap: The Unforeseen Consequences of Smart Beta
A new paper by Sean Markowicz, a strategist at Schroders, looks into the possibility that fund flows into the…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Hedge Fund Index Backslides in May; Remains in Positive Territory
Red ink spoiled an otherwise positive 2019 for he Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index. The decline of 0.71% leaves…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
What Do Owners Think of Smart Beta Strategies?
FTSE Russell has posted its sixth annual survey of global asset owners’ views of smart beta. Smart beta is a…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Crop Protection and Inputs Management: Growing Investments in AgTech
The agricultural sector is under pressure from several directions, including depressed commodity prices,…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Private Debt
The Value of Speculation Limits, or Lack Thereof
CFTC Commissioner Daniel Berkovitz recently spoke to the FIA Commodities Symposium, in Houston, Texas, about…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Fixing the Sharpe Ratio: A Machine Learning Approach
The Sharpe ratio has long served as a simple but important item in the due diligence tool kit. Formulated by…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
A HORSE RACE OF LIQUID ALTERNATIVES
By Nicolas Rabener of FactorResearch (@FactorResearch) INTRODUCTION Investing is challenging as it is complex…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Advising the Ultra-Wealthy: The State of the Industry
The Family Office Exchange (FOX) has released a report on the state of the ultra-wealthy advisory business.…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection