Posts Tagged ‘ alternative investment ’

Hedge Fund Weather Report for 2012: Mostly Cloudy

Jan 2nd, 2012 | Filed under: Alpha Strategies, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, Today's Post

The Mathema report is full of cautions, and indeed adopts a quite generally gloomy tone. The markets, it tells us, don’t lend any credence to the political fixes that have been offered for the eurozone and especially for its peripheral players. If the fixes did have credibility, then the PIIGS’ 10-year government benchmark yields would have been falling significantly of late vis-à-vis the 10 year German Bund yield. But there has been no such fall.

Pulse of Private Equity: PE Managers Cautious and Hiring

Dec 6th, 2011 | Filed under: Private Equity, Today's Post

EisnerAmper LLP's latest edition of “Pulse of Private Equity” finds that PE firms in the second half of 2011 are becoming “more sober about the potential for transactions,” compared to last year or earlier this year.

Asian Fund Distribution: Beyond UCITS

Nov 21st, 2011 | Filed under: Alpha Strategies, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Hedge Fund Strategies, Institutional Investing, Today's Post

The world is a fairly small pond in which ripples anywhere soon shake the surface everywhere. Such an observation, like the word “globalization,” has become a cliché, but the truth behind them both becomes quite obvious in the course of a new “Viewpoint” paper by Ernst & Young that examines fund distribution strategies in the [...]

SEI: PE Managers Give ‘Other’ Answers

Nov 8th, 2011 | Filed under: Alpha Strategies, Private Equity, Timely Research, Today's Post

Managers were asked: “other than delivering expected performance, what is the greatest challenge in satisfying investors?” The results were: getting investors comfortable with infrastructure, 22 percent; providing satisfactory performance attribution data, 19 percent; providing broader education/consulting, 18 percent; providing satisfactory risk analytics, 11 percent; other, 28 percent. The residual answer produced more favorable replies, then, than did any of the pre-scripted answers.

The Asia-Pacific Private Equity Parade: Is it Passing You By?

Sep 27th, 2011 | Filed under: Private Equity, Timely Research, Today's Post

It is true by definition that the crowd is right in the midst of a trend, and wrong at the moment when that trend is about to reverse itself.  In the Asia Pacific region, broad confidence in opportunities for private equity surely constitutes by now, a trend, even a parade. Whether it is the sort [...]

Looking at an Ink Blot, Seeing a Green Light

Sep 26th, 2011 | Filed under: Academic Research, Commodities, Timely Research, Today's Post

International Monetary Fund research shows that speculation does not influence the commodities markets.

New data shows that thanks to alternative investments, endowments did relatively well in 2009

Feb 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Institutional Investing, Today's Post

Sure, US university endowments took a dive last year. But a closer look reveals that, on the whole, alternative investments were a help, not a hindrance.