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Judge Rose: Libya’s SWF Heads Knew What They Were Doing
The economic historians of posterity have their work cut out for them here. There are doctoral dissertations…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
Impact Investing: The Impacts, Measurement and Profit
One candidate for the title “next new thing” is “impact investing.” As the term suggests, this refers to…
State of the Industry, ESG
Academics:  No, Navinder Sarao Did Not Cause the Flash Crash 
Mid-October news reports tell us that Navinder Sarao has lost his effort to avoid extradition from Britain to…
State of the Industry, Risk Management, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
BLEAK HOUSE--OR THE OUTLOOK ON HEDGE FUNDS NOW
By Diane Harrison Charles Dickens’ Bleak House spins a tale of mystery, intrigue, family dynamics, and irony…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Asset Allocation
Islam, Western Pensions, and Real Assets
A recent academic discussion of the much-vexed question of Islamic finance (including the always at least…
State of the Industry, Emerging Asset Classes, Asset Allocation
Harvard gives Narv the nod
By Charles Skorina As all the world now knows, Harvard has selected Columbia's Nirmal P. "Narv" Narvekar as…
State of the Industry
Looking to the Technological Imperative: Where Has It Been?
On September 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission held an open meeting about a proposed shortening of…
State of the Industry, Hedge Funds, Access to Alternatives
Tick Pilot Program: A Progress Report
The long-awaited nickel-tick pilot program, an effort to test an alternative to the penny-or-less tick sizes…
State of the Industry, Asset Allocation, Access to Alternatives
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