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Preqin and NXT Capital on the Filling of a Post-GFC Vacuum
Preqin, in collaboration with NXT Capital, has surveyed institutional investors about the U.S. lower middle-…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
A Critique of the Listed Infrastructure Sector
A new study by EDHECinfra (EDHEC’s infrastructure institute based in Singapore), has a striking point of view…
Skin in the Game: Testing a Cliché
One of the most well-worn clichés in the hedge fund industry is the phrase “skin in the game.” Investors want…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Real Estate: A Global Outlook
PWC and the Urban Land Institute have jointly issued a report on “emerging trends in real estate” around the…
Infrastructure
The 100+ Top Guns of Institutional Investing
By Charles Skorina This letter looks at the most recent five-year performance of over one hundred of the…
State of the Industry
Pensions: On Mortality and Long-Duration Corporate Bonds
Milliman, an actuarial and consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, has completed a white paper on corporate…
Asset Allocation
Alternative Risk Premia Investing
Unigestion has posted a research paper by Olivier Blin, Joan Lee, and Jérôme Teiletche, on “some of the…
Asset Allocation
Accounting Issues and Investing in Timberland
On May 3, 2017, Ernst & Young made available the bullet points for a presentation on the “accounting,…
Wine: French Producers, U.S. Consumers, the World’s Investors        
Agrifrance recently posted a report looking at the French wine industry, with an especial focus on export to…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes
Timberland Investors See 0% Growth Rate for Harvesting Costs
Today, we’ll look at  KPMG’s effort to determine who exactly the investors in timberland are, what their…
New Numbers on Catastrophe Bond Insurance
A new report from an Alternative Risk Transfer research service, Artemis, looks at the catastrophe bond and…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
THE BOOK TOUR APPROACH TO LAUNCHING A NEW FUND
By Diane Harrison The only thing harder than running a successful alternatives fund is launching it. Getting…
New Technologies Adding to Pressure on Fees
A new paper proposes that emerging technologies (blockchains, Big Data and artificial intelligence) have…
Hedge Funds, State of the Industry
Sovereign Funds: Illiquidity and Transparency
News reports in the waning days of the second quarter of 2017 indicate that sovereign wealth funds,…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Do Teachers Pensions Need Trumpian Negotiators?
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has issued a lengthy rebuke to and critique of the fee structure of…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation