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With stock dispersion at all-time lows, is the art of stock-picking dead or just napping?
If pensions funds were hockey teams, it seems many of them probably wouldn't want to watch the scoreboard too closely.
Hedge funds and others are trying their best to ensure they don't make the "yuan" moves as China maneuvers it's way to tighter monetary policy.
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are gaining popularity around the world. REIT-on dude!
If you are a merger arbitrage manager you probably already know this...
The Dodd-Frank Act requires hedge fund to register with the SEC. But it also nearly also forced America's 4,000 family offices to do the same. That got the SEC is wondering: What exactly is a family office anyway?
A new academic paper suggests alpha does exist after all - just not in the form or format that many investors think.
What exactly are "absolute returns" anyway? Ask 10 different investors and you'll probably get 10 different answers.
The man who inspired the concept of the "Black Swan" discovered the famous anomaly in cotton price data. So it was a fitting tribute that cotton prices spiked to an all-time high the day he passed away last week.
A study based on newly available pension fund data suggests that there are significant economies of scale in pension fund management. But a recent study based on the same data seemed to conclude the opposite.
A new academic paper puts more blame on hedge funds for the 2008 credit crisis and market collapse, arguing that liquidity risk in stocks is inherently higher among securities held by hedge funds than in securities held in the portfolios of individual investors and banks.
As UCITS-compliant hedge funds become increasingly popular among funds of hedge funds in particular there is growing concern that underlying managers may be bending the rules to get the UCITS seal of approval.
Despite a lot of chatter and an assortment of industry surveys, some still say there hasn't yet been a "comprehensive overview of the differences and similarities of alternative UCITS funds and hedge funds" - until now...
An article in this quarter's Journal of Alternative Investments is among the first to examine the market timing ability of bear market funds.
A report by KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit concludes that the public and private sectors can and should be working together to implement infrastructure projects globally - good news for any investor or manager keen on putting money to work building roads, bridges, tunnels and everything between.
