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SWFs Looking to PEs Both as Intermediaries and as Co-investors
A recent working paper from the European Corporate Governance Institute discusses direct investment by…
Infrastructure
Pitfalls and Publicly Owned Hedge Fund Managers
Two scholars affiliated with Singapore Management University have published a study of “the pitfalls of going…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
Texas Turmoil: UTIMCO picks a new path through a political minefield
By Charles Skorina Endowment returns took a beating last year and the turnover in chief investment officers…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Pension Institute on the Herding Tendency of Pensions as Investors
A new paper by the Pension Institute looks at the investing behavior of UK defined-benefit plans over the…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Big Data is Old Hat: Machine Learning is Hot
A year ago, in a report on Big Data and investment management, Citi Business Advisory Services predicted that…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
A Vision of 2020 and 6 Imperatives
PwC, the global network of business and tax consultancies, has put out a white paper on the near future of…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, ESG
Hedge Fund Performance: A Multi-Factor Model
Dimitrios Stafylas, of Aston University, Aston Business School, in Birmingham, England, has proposed a “…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
On the Bitcoin Blockchain: Looking Under the Hood
More than a year ago, the Capco Institute Journal of Financial Transformation (Journal) ran a “critical…
Emerging Asset Classes, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Active Share: Empirical and Conceptual Issues
In 2009, Martijn Cremers, of the University of Notre Dame, and Antti Petajisto of New York University,…
Risk Management, Asset Allocation
A Brief History of Hedge Fund Regulations in India
The investment world now understands that politics and related matters of business climate in the Republic of…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Funds of Funds and the Task of Financial Intermediation
Are funds of funds a valuable form of intermediation? Robert Harris, of the University of Virginia, Darden…
Risk Management, Private Equity, Asset Allocation
Cash Management Strategies for Private Equity
Private equity investors have a distinctive cash management question: what do they do with the money that has…
Private Equity, Asset Allocation
Another Take on 'A Modest Proposal'
By Diane Harrison Jonathan Swift, one of the great satirists of all time, published a disturbing and…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
OECD Report on Insurer Portfolio Investment Strategies
A paper by Helmut Gründl and two associates, discussed at the June 2016 meeting of the Organization for…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
The Federal Reserve on Distributed Ledger Technology (that is, on Blockchains)
A large team of officers and staff affiliated with the Federal Reserve (eight with the Board in DC, five with…
Risk Management, Asset Allocation