The pendulum has clearly switched to investor from manager in the post-2008 institutional allocation world. The question is whether managers can do what it takes to get past the velvet rope and into the institutional investor party.

How will history remember 2008? A "monograph" on the financial crisis assembled by the CFA Research Foundation finds no easy answers.

Family offices have long been enamored with alternative investment managers. A new survey suggests private equity funds may be next in line.

On April 6th, 2010, the only team remaining in the NCAA Men's basketball tournament will have a record of 6-0. Imagine trying to extrapolate that team's record across all 65 tournament participants.

Private equity is unfortunately living up to its reputation as the poor cousin of hedge funds, but things are slowly beginning to turn around, according to a recent report.

Stocks with high media coverage tend to produce lower returns because, it is suggested, their investors behave a certain way. So why on earth would an un-traded security such as a hedge fund face the same fate?

Hedge fund activism takes practice. So it comes as no surprise that its most experienced practitioners tend to practice it a lot.

By: Andrew Saunders, Director, EFX Prime Services, Member of the Editorial Board of AllAboutAlpha.com. In the words of a friend of mine, the business of risk “is brisk.” One of the reminders of 2008 was that in times of stress, correlations do indeed go to one, and many of the tools available fail miserably. Here [...]

Securities lending is alive and well, but it's not just about institutional assets anymore. A new report by Finadium points to the yet-untapped potential riches of fully paid retail brokerage assets.

In a world where choosing plastic over paper is deemed a deadly sin, carbon credits trading has gained strong momentum, particularly among institutional investors looking to allocate to "green" strategies and managers. But research suggests the practice is far more complicated than the theory.

Ever noticed that the marketers of alternative investments are just as excited about good returns as the portfolio managers - even though they may not share in any performance fee?

Thought there was no such thing as a free lunch? For hedge fund investors, there apparently is, according to a new research study, especially if they're looking to avoid a little kurtosis.

Past research has shown that when mutual fund companies offer hedge funds, mutual fund performance suffers. But a new study finds that when individual mutual fund managers also manage hedge funds, this actually helps the mutual fund performance.

A comprehensive review of the events of Q3 and Q4, 2008 show that hedge funds may not have been the liquidity providers they have been made out to be (at least, in equity markets). But even if not, it seems they didn't really exacerbate the sell-off either.

As a new regulatory regime for hedge funds continues to unfold, hedge funds listing on exchanges seems oh-so 2007. But a recent academic study finds that a surprise peripheral benefit is survival.