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Hedge fund activists need friends
Two scholars at the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, in the UK, have written a paper on “the…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
UC Berkeley: Stale Prices Not a Threat to Liquidity Takers
Two scholars associated with the University of California, Berkeley, have argued in a recent paper that there…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Eurekahedge: Redemptions Exceeding New Investment for HFs Worldwide
Hedge funds have now seen three consecutive months in which redemptions have exceeded new investment, for a…
Hedge Funds
Sovereign Debt: A Cryonic Solution to the Holdout Problem
Where does the world stand on the restructuring problem after NML v Argentina?  One professor and one…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
Fiduciary Duty, Excessive Fees, and Findings of Fact  
The Honorable Peter J. Sheridan, for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, ruled in favor…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Access to Alternatives
Northill: In Defense of Active Management
Northill Capital, a London-based asset manager, has released a report defending active asset management from…
Manager Selection, Asset Allocation
The Next Crisis: BIS Warns of ‘Financial Vulnerabilities’ in EME/NFCs
In a recent paper submitted to the G20’s working group on international financial architecture, scholars with…
Asset Allocation
The Shale/Fracking Revolution: 1998 to 2011
A critical revolution in the crude oil and natural gas markets began 18 years ago. Gary Sernovitz, who has…
Risk-Adjusted Time Series Momentum Strategies
The name is awkwardly long, and the standard abbreviation, “RAMOM,” sounds like what one says when cheering…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
New Support for a 40-Year-Old Theory about IPOs
It is always aesthetically pleasing to see something elegant brought down from an attic, dusted off, and…
Asset Allocation
Sovereign Credit Swaps: Europe’s Sovereigns and Regime Changes
Andrea Consiglio and two of his colleagues have developed models for the management of risk in the sovereign…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Why are Bank Stress Tests like Student/Instructor Evaluations?
Two scholars affiliated with Columbia University have contributed to the ongoing discussion of Federal…
Risk Management
Crunch Time for the Harvard Endowment
By Charles Skorina The hunt is underway for a new CEO at the Harvard Management Company.  And…
State of the Industry
New Paper Tackles Basic Questions About Alternative Investments
RCM Alternatives, a Chicago-based asset manager specializing in managed futures products, has published a new…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Active vs. Passive: A 3-Club Headwind
By Scott Opsal Relative Performance Actively managed funds have recently underperformed passive indexes. As a…
Asset Allocation, Manager Selection, State of the Industry