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Preqin on PE Distributions & Call-Ups in 2013
Capital distributions to private-equity investors reached a record level in2013, according to research by…
Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
How Not to Nationalize the Clearinghouses
Everybody loves the idea of the central clearing of derivatives. It’s like motherhood, transparency, and…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund Branding Continues to Drive a Majority Of Asset Flows
Since the market correction of 2008, a vast majority of hedge fund net asset flows have gone to a small…
Hedge Funds
Markets Work: The Argument from Robert Bork’s Beard
I’ve sought to formulate a strong argument against something in which I firmly believe. [It was a response to…
Asset Allocation
SIP and the Law of Unintended Consequences
A venerable economic [or sociological] principle goes by the name, “the law of unintended consequences.” In…
Access to Alternatives
Advancing the Infrastructure Investment Narrative
EDHEC Risk Institute has proposed a valuation and risk-management framework for illiquid infrastructure debt…
Infrastructure, Hedge Funds
GFIA: June is ‘Listless’ for Many Asia Managers
GFIA’s latest Research Insights tells us that in the month of June, MSCI Asian Pacific ex Japan was up, 1.3…
Hedge Funds
Terwilliger’s Legal Troubles: Give Mark Cuban a Cigar
Sharesleuth, a business-investigating website backed by billionaire Mark Cuban, is an experiment in the…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Windfall: a Book on the Rise of the Climate Investor Class
Windfall, the booming business of global warming is a recent book written by McKenzie Funk. Most of…
Hedge Funds, ESG
Herbalife’s Earnings and Ackman’s Timing: Part II
What is true without question is this: Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) sells nutritional and skin care products through…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Herbalife’s Earnings and Ackman’s Timing: Part I
Herbalife filed an 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission July 29th, including a press release dated…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Investment World Has Good News for Philanthropy
A new Study of Investments for Private Foundations, sponsored jointly by the Council on Foundations and…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The Skorina Report is Surfing the Age of Asset Management: Will the tide of global AUM lift all asset-management boats?
By Charles Skorina The future looks bright for investment-management professionals as global assets under…
State of the Industry
What is Right & What is Wrong With the Sharpe Ratio?
William Sharpe’s 1975 article, “Adjusting for Risk in Portfolio Performance Measurement,” applied Harry…
Risk Management
Eurex Clearing and DB Group: New Paper on CCPs
The Deutsche Börse Group and Eurex Clearing have together issued a white paper on “How central counter-…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives