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Amy Falls: Meeting Harvard's plan B
In late July, Stephen Blyth stepped down as head of Harvard Management Company; then things happened fast. By…
State of the Industry
Global Pension Funds: Process and Best Practices
A new white paper from PwC, sponsored by AMAFORES, La Asociación Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos para…
Asset Allocation
Preqin on Ag Funds and Their Managers
Fundraising for agriculture/farmland-focused funds has been remarkably strong recently, according to research…
Selling Growth Stocks at the Right Time: Hedge Funds Are Good At It
Two scholars at Ozyegin University, in Istanbul, make the case that hedge funds have a uniquely good record…
Hedge Funds
Local and Global VC Need to Work Together for Best Results
Thomas J. Chemmanur of Boston College, Carroll School of Management, and two other scholars looked into the…
Private Equity
Rudin and Marr: A Reformulation of RP Methods of Portfolio Construction
A recent article by Alexander Rudin and William M. Marr, in The Journal of Alternative Investments, seeks to…
Risk Management, Asset Allocation
Infrastructure Project Finance: Benchmarking and Definitions
In a new article in The Journal of Alternative Investments, three EDHEC-affiliated scholars, led by Frédéric…
Infrastructure
Aftermath of 2008: Reactions to Decreased Liquidity
A new report from State Street Corporation and the Alternative Investment Management Association says that…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
PE Buyout Funds: Finding or Building a Proxy
Alexandre Coupe, associate director, Pacific  Alternative Asset Management Company, head of PAAMCO’s…
Asset Allocation
Commissioner Piwower and Alpha Seekers
With a new administration in the making, thoughts in the world of asset management naturally turn to the…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
MIND THE GAP—LENDERS APPROACHING
By Diane Harrison It’s been years since investors have been able to get excited about the term "yield" when…
Real Estate, Private Debt
Dakota Access and the Army Corps of Engineers: An Odd Mistake?
On November 7, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers put out a statement that said that the Dakota Access Pipeline…
Infrastructure
Energy Infrastructure: The Midstream Sector
Is it a stream or is it a sea? They seem to have gotten their hydrological imagery mixed up. But no, the “sea…
Access to Alternatives, Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
Pension Funds, Hedge Funds, and Allocations
A new scholarly paper addresses the puzzle: which institutional investors are best informed? Zhe Chen, of the…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Outsourced CIO assets grow to $1.3 Trillion
By Charles Skorina With 74 firms reporting in, total outsourced CIO assets (managed with full discretion)…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection