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A New Look at Last Year’s Conference Board White Paper on Governance
You don’t need to be a weatherman (or a hedge fund’s star trader, a corporate board member, a securities…
Risk Management, ESG
SBA of Florida Looks into Truth & Consequences of Activist Investing
Florida’s State Board of Administration, the manager of the assets of the Florida Retirement System Pension…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, ESG
SEC: KKR Misallocated ‘Broken Deal’ Costs
When people speaking normal non-lawyerly English use the word “deceit,” they generally refer to somebody’s…
Risk Management, Private Equity, Access to Alternatives
Rogue Trader Adoboli’s Return to Freedom: Down Memory Lane
One of the photos in the gallery of memorable “rogue traders” of recent years is that of a man who has just…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
European Investor Satisfaction with Smart Beta ETFs
A new study by the EDHEC-Risk Institute has found that those who have invested in smart beta exchange traded…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
A Close Look at the Deutsche Bank Findings
In the course of a busy news cycle, this tidbit was largely overlooked: in June 2014, Deutsche Bank raised $…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Copper Prices: Why the Downslope?
An underlying fact, noted here for example by our own Shane Brett a year and a half ago, is that “the easiest…
Risk Management
Lies, Damned Lies and Alpha
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.--Benjamin Disraeli Investors equate “alpha”…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Comparing SPM to Elliott: And Other Thoughts on MBS Funds
What struck me while interviewing Brian Shapiro about the current state of the hedge fund world’s MBS space…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Study: Corporate/Government Cronyism Does Create Alpha
Three scholars, two affiliated with Oxford University, the other with the University of Connecticut, have…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Tavakoli on Death, an Industry’s Culture, and Decisions
Janet Tavakoli, the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance and an authority on credit derivatives, has…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
Eurelectric Speaks Up For Grushenka
Sometimes I can’t help but think of a passage from The Brothers Karamazov: “It was known too that the young…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
The Latest News from Italian Banking and the Dane-geld
Rudyard Kipling famously warned that once a nation starts “paying the Dane-geld” it will never get rid of the…
Risk Management, Hedge Funds
They Do It Right Down Under: Australian Institutional Funds
A new paper by two scholars affiliated with the University of New South Wales compares Australian…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
EDHEC: Geography is Not Just a Listing or Headquarters
In a new report, five scholars affiliated with EDHEC Risk Institute, find that for many equities, the ‘…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation