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Evidence that Sovereign Wealth Funds Mitigate the Agency Problem
Ever since the 1930s, scholars have discussed the “agency problem” built into the structure of publicly owned…
Asset Allocation, Risk Management
First Quarter: An Industry Recovers From a Dry Spell
Preqin’s review of the hedge fund space in the first quarter of 2017 describes the quarter as a time of “…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Making a Case: Divestiture is the Wrong Tool Re Climate Risk
Sarah Bernstein, of the Pension Consulting Alliance, has prepared a discussion paper for the benefit of the…
State of the Industry, ESG
The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem: A New Benchmark Study
It is clear by now to even the most hardened skeptic that cryptocurrency, the class of assets of which…
Access to Alternatives, Asset Allocation, Emerging Asset Classes, State of the Industry
EMANCIPATION FROM PARTICIPATION
By Diane Harrison The mindset of “I’m OK, you’re OK” endorsed by today’s progressive parents who aim to…
State Pensions and Complex Investments
A recent report from the PEW charitable trusts discusses the degree to which the pension funds of the states…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Real Assets and Environmental/Social Impacts
It’s an old debate: does socially responsible investing under its variations (including “impact investing”)…
State of the Industry, ESG
Highlights in the Growth of Farmland Funds
Highquest Partners and a product strategist for timber and agriculture at GMO LLC (Julie Koeninger) have…
Hedge Funds and Sell-Side Analysts: Who is Tipping Off Whom?
Nathan Swem, an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, has written a paper on…
Risk Management, Asset Allocation
SWFs: Growth Slows but Continues
Preqin’s new Sovereign Wealth Fund Review makes the point that total assets under the management of SWFs…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
ESG Concerns Have Multi-Factored Impact on Performance
The Cornerstone Capital Group, in a new white paper, looks at some of the specific interactions between ESG…
State of the Industry, ESG
What makes a great Chief Investment Officer?
By Charles Skorina All professional investors want to make money.  The question is, how and for whom? In…
State of the Industry
Longevity Risk Transfer Markets: Limits to Growth
It was a fairly routine item about an accomplished executive changing jobs in the asset management industry,…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Risk Management Isn’t Just Fund Selection
New Strategies for Risk Management in Private Equity, a new book from Private Equity International, is an…
Risk Management, Private Equity, Manager Selection
Generation Two Liquid Alternatives
Beachhead Capital Management has published a white paper on what it calls the “second generation of liquid…
Access to Alternatives, State of the Industry