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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
All Regional Mandates in Positive Territory YTD
Global equity markets are doing well now and the hedge fund industry benefits. That’s the gist of the latest…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Deutsche Bank on Investor Demands Today
Demand produces its own supply. That is the contrary of Says Law, and it is the moral of Deutsche Bank’s new…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Alternative Investments: Why Do We Care
By Jeff Malec, CAIA CEO, Founding Partner Attain Capital Management, LLC I’m a philosophy major, so I’ll…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
A Challenge to Bayesian Probability
A surprising dust-up in the blogosphere in recent days concerns Thomas Bayes, and the distinctive branch of…
Risk Management, Manager Selection
Winner Takes All, and Liquidity Takers Win
A new report stresses the extent to which the world of high-frequency trading is winner-take-all. Three…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Looking at the Future of World Wealth McKinsey-style
McKinsey has published a Private Banking Survey, part of a series it initiated in 2002. The gist of this one…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
AIFMD Depositary: Developing an operating model
*By Shane Brett of Global Perspectives and Alan Meaney of Fund Recs Depositary Lite vs. Full Depositary The…
Access to Alternatives
Volcker: 'The Kind of Stuff You’re Being Taught'
Before he goes down in history books as the man behind the “Volcker rule,” that is, behind the effort to…
Asset Allocation
Deal Activity: Beer and Obamacare Both Factor In
The new Intralinks Deal Flow Indicator report merits study by alpha hunters who look for promising mergers…
Private Equity, Asset Allocation