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A recent scan of the financial reports of 150 major pension funds reveals the world's most popular alternative investment managers. Here's an award not even Lindsay Lohan could win.
Angel investing is an acquired taste that isn't generally described as an "alternative investment." But as a recent survey of both angels and VC funds illustrates, angel investing is really no different than an institutional investor making "direct" private equity investments.
A working paper by researchers at the IMF suggests there are four relatively distinct types of sovereign wealth funds. And once you know the fund type, you can guess at their appetite for alternative investments.
And the institutions demanded higher transparency, lower fees and greater risk management. And the hedge funds listened - at least according to Preqin's latest survey of hedge fund industry trends.
Thought managers in "inefficient markets" like emerging markets or small cap equities had the advantage when it comes to alpha-generation? Maybe not...
"Bernie" is back in the headlines, squawking from the jailhouse about how the banks and others should have seen his scheme for what it was - and actually may have. The broader question is whether suspicions about Madoff's bogus strategy would have made a difference.
Full points for stamina! After dropping by more than half between 2006 and 2008, REITs are nearly back to their pre-crash size. But do they have what it takes to succeed in the long term?
Investing in different kinds of collectibles as an alternative way to generate alpha has been tried time and again. Few, however, have made it the intricate topic of a detailed dissertation, and fewer still have dedicated research to showing the positive returns collectibles can generate in a broader investment portfolio.
Real estate in various forms continues to gain favor among institutional investors. For hedge funds, the problem is the shadow being cast.
Sure it's hard to start a hedge fund these days. But for some that obviously doesn't matter.
Despite being raised in different homes, it turns out that funds of private equity funds face some of the same genetic realities as their hedge fund brethren.
What the Dickens?! Although financial bubbles look pretty similar on the outside, it turns out that they may be more like snowflakes: no two are the same.
Trends come and go. Here's one that came, went and is now on its way back according to a survey by consultancy bfinance.
Do hedge funds really care about being the "best"?
A new research study by Singapore's GFIA explores the "different world" created by the global financial crisis.
