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If a drunk is walking randomly around a lamppost, then the fact that his first step of the day was away from…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The March 2015 report from Eurekahedge makes a point of how much the hedge fund world has changed since 2007…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
A new report by Greenwich Associates looks at the pros and cons of central clearing from the point of view of…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
KPMG, the Managed Funds Association, and the Alternative Investment Management Association have jointly…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Authorities released last month a review of Europe’s 2010 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
The law firm Wachtell Lipton, for decades now a powerful advocate for corporate managements against…
Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
In one recent development, Intralinks, a provider of virtual data rooms that support mergers and acquisitions…
Hedge Funds
First: I have to protest on a matter of vocabulary. No matter how completely lost a battle this is, it is…
Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
The actual return correlation between two assets has nothing to do with whether they’re listed (public) or…
State of the Industry, Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
By Diane Harrison Every year, Preqin publishes their annual review of the hedge fund industry, 120-plus pages…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds
A new paper from the Confederation of British Industry looks at three policy issues that ought to concern…
Infrastructure
Personal distractions lessen a manager’s ability to produce alpha. This is true of both happy and unhappy…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Asset Allocation
The Austrian Financial Market Authority pulled the plug on Austria’s “bad bank” on March 1. This is the end…
Private Equity, Asset Allocation
By Andrew Beer Investors and managers find themselves at an interesting inflection point in the evolution of…
Manager Selection, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
What the divestment debate comes down to is how boards define their fiduciary duty. [Spoiler: We don't think…
State of the Industry, Risk Management