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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
McKinsey: Historically Anomalous Period Nears an End
McKinsey & Co. has posted a new report assessing the state and the future of the North American asset…
State of the Industry, Infrastructure
Dealmakers: Trump, Hillary, and Mergers
Intralinks, a firm created 20 years ago to enable “high-stakes transactions and business collaborations,” has…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Judge Rose: Libya’s SWF Heads Knew What They Were Doing
The economic historians of posterity have their work cut out for them here. There are doctoral dissertations…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Impact Investing: The Impacts, Measurement and Profit
One candidate for the title “next new thing” is “impact investing.” As the term suggests, this refers to…
State of the Industry, ESG
Massad: Where the U.S. and the World Stand on Margins & Cap Requirements
The chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Timothy Massad, addressed the Outlook Conference of…
Asset Allocation
Academics:  No, Navinder Sarao Did Not Cause the Flash Crash 
Mid-October news reports tell us that Navinder Sarao has lost his effort to avoid extradition from Britain to…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Eurekahedge: Exodus from the Event-Driven Funds YTD  
The event-driven hedge fund space is the most troubled in a generally troubled time for the industry.…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation