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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
Venture Capital Top 100 List(s): GP and LP
Preqin has named its top 100 Venture Capital firms, ordered by the amount of capital each firm has raised in…
Private Equity
Growth and Challenges for Asset Management in Italy
A recent (May 2017) Deloitte white paper discussed asset management in Italy. The paper begins with the…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
What They’re Saying About Smart Beta, Tactics, and Strategy
For four years now, FTSE Russell has surveyed global institutions, asking about their interest in smart beta…
State of the Industry, ESG, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Pension Funds’ Portfolio Decisions: The Dutch Data
DeNederlandscheBank (DNB) issued a working paper this spring about the impact of liquidity and capital…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Institutions that Integrate ESG Considerations: 6 Types
A new white paper from the Investor Responsibility Research Center (the IRRC Institute) in conjunction with…
State of the Industry, ESG
Leading the charge into OCIO battlespace: 2 Harvardians invent an industry
By Charles Skorina In 1973, two former Harvard roommates and budding entrepreneurs - Jim Bailey and Hunter…
State of the Industry
New Zealand PE and VC Activity on the rise
An increase in total buy-out investments proved a big factor in the growth through 2016 of the private equity…
Private Equity
Lawsuit in California, Survey in Europe: On ETF Managers and Investors
Late last year a California state court found that the plaintiffs in a class action suit stated a cause of…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
BIS Numbers and the Market for Forex NDFs
A little over a year ago, the Bank for International Settlements announced its 11th Triennial Central Bank…
Asset Allocation
How Do They Get Those Non-Correlated Returns?
In a recent paper Mark Shore, of Shore Capital Management, has discussed overlaying of strategies in managed…
Manager Selection, Risk Management
Broad Commodities: Value, Inflation, Implementation
ETF Securities (US) LLC, a New York-based asset manager and manufacturer of ETP’s (Exchange Traded Products…
Asset Allocation
The Intelligent Use of Smart Beta     
This is the first of a series of articles on smart beta. By Scott Opsal, The Leuthold Group Understanding…
Asset Allocation, State of the Industry
Marketplace Lending: Just Because I’m Disruptive Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Be Friends!
Mark Shore, chief research officer of Shore Capital Research, and an adjunct professor at DePaul University,…
State of the Industry, ESG, Emerging Asset Classes