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From UMIFA to UPMIFA: Taking Stock 10 Years Later
Ten years ago, thus before the global financial crisis, the Uniform Law Commission promulgated the Uniform…
State of the Industry
The Harvard Management Company to Big to Hail?
In asset management, as in other endeavors, size really does matter. Bigger is better.  But growth in…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation
Kyle Bass, IPR and Shorting Big Pharma
Kyle Bass, the investor who shorted the market in residential mortgage-based securities a decade ago, with…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes
Research, Unbundling and MiFID II
The “soft dollars” question, that is, the issue of the arrangements by which the managers of other peoples’…
State of the Industry, Access to Alternatives
ATTACK MARKETING USING THE RULE OF 150
By Diane Harrison The Rule of 150, first posited in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, refers…
State of the Industry
Aligning Interests: Changes in Alt Investment Business Models
A new AIMA research paper discusses “the alignment of interests between hedge fund managers and investors” as…
State of the Industry, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
ESMA's Greybeards Ponder Blockchains
There has been a flurry in recent days of activity about blockchains among the graybeards of the financial…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
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
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
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
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
5 Reasons Why Emerging Managers are Worth a Look
By Diane Harrison Beware the industry naysayers who proclaim hedge funds aren’t worth their salt--fees/risk/…
State of the Industry, Private Equity, Manager Selection, Hedge Funds
Taking the Alcohol Out of the Wine:  A Decarbonized Index
A recent publication in the Financial Analysts Journal presents a model by virtue of which long-term passive…
State of the Industry, ESG