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There have been a lot of surveys on Europe's latest fashion trend: UCITSIII. Today, a guest author reports on some actual hard data on the topic.
Special to AllAboutAlpha.com by: Steve Deutsch, AllAboutAlpha.com Editorial Board At the end of March I reviewed the CFA Institute’s “Insights into the Global Financial Crisis” on these pages. Now, in my continuing search of a good explanation to the Subprime Credit Crisis of 2008-9 and the role of alternative investments in the economic calamity that followed, [...]
Yet another report on hedge fund convergence suggests hedge funds and long-only strategies are likely to become more entwined - in theory at least.
A recent study of dedicated short biased hedge funds reveals that when markets go up, their managers still have a trick or two up their sleeves.
A new white paper provides a good introduction to this increasingly important topic for pensions, endowments and sovereign wealth funds.
Active managers aren't just overpaid dart-throwers who close their eyes and hope for the best, according to researchers. It turns out they actually peek - which may explain their apparent out-performance.
Here's another reason to count domestic and geopolitics as betas.
Panacea, cure-all, the ultimate fix for liquidity, transparency and due diligence issues - whatever you want to call it, UCITS-wrapped hedge funds appear here to stay.
As alternative investors know, money does grow on trees after all. The trick is: how to harvest it.
A recent report from McKinsey & Co. is critical of the risk management processes used by many institutional investors. The firm's response amounts to a call-to-arms for risk management professionals.
An update on a study of the infamous 2008 short-selling bans pins the blame squarely on regulators for inadvertently making a bad situation worse.
A study published this month in the Journal of Alternative Investments finds that agricultural commodities futures in various markets are actually served with dollops of diversifiable risk.
If market inefficiencies beget alpha, then is it any surprise emerging market private equity is attracting so much capital?
A paper by a pair of institutional investment consultants challenges the notion of a "stock-picker's market" and finds that "beta-alpha" is the real source of returns - at least for US large cap managers.
A new research report suggests it's a "new era" for funds of hedge funds, but the jury is still out on what that new era will entail when it comes to re-gaining the trust - and assets - of institutional investors.
