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Alpha Generation and Real-Time Data
In a recent paper, Michael W. Brandt and two colleagues look into whether hedge funds “adjust the conditional…
Hedge Funds
The State of Alternative Investments in Australia and New Zealand 
A new Preqin paper presents the state of the alternatives investment industry in Australia and New Zealand.…
State of the Industry
Performance of SRIs: Funds and Indexes
A new paper by Giuseppe Risalvato, a Ph.D. candidate at Università Carlo Cattaneo, Italy, contends that there…
State of the Industry, ESG
Alternative Investments in Target Date Funds
Vanguard, the manager of about 370 low cost traditional funds and ETFs, and an institution famously…
Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
The Function of the High-Watermark: Not What You Think
A new paper in the Journal of Accounting and Finance discusses hurdle rates and high watermarks, and how they…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection
Whether Alpha Grows on Trees: Timberland Investment Part I
This is the first in a series of three posts about timber as a real asset. We kick off the series with a…
AIMA and SGPS on Managed Futures and CTAs
The Alternative Investment Management Association and Societe Generale Prime Services have together put out a…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Cautious Numbers Estimates: A Comparative Look
On August 29, we at AllAboutAlpha ran a summary of the latest Eurekahedge report, saying that total hedge…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund Activism: The Facts Don’t Bear Out the Dire Warnings
Lucian Bebchuk, a professor at Harvard Law, has been at the heart of scholarly arguments over corporate…
Hedge Funds
SUNY Scholars: Hedge Funds are Smart about PIPES
Two scholars affiliated with the State University of New York at Albany recently looked into the roles of…
Hedge Funds
Barnes on Swaps Transparency under  MiFID II
A recent blog in the TABB Forum, by Chris Barnes of Clarus Financial Technology, looks at recent developments…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
A PRACTICUM FOR AUM
By Diane Harrison There’s no denying that one of the biggest challenges small managers face is raising…
State of the Industry
Aon: Alternative Risk Premia Viable for Many
A new report from Aon discusses the contemporary market for alternative risk premia: where it is, how it got…
Asset Allocation
A Call to Norway to Invest in Renewables
A new paper from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis looks at Norway’s pension fund,…
State of the Industry, ESG
Below the Black: A Review of Risk Reduction Strategies
Excerpted from the Alternative Investment Analyst Review, Volume 1, Issue 4 The Alternative Investment…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds