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	<title>AllAboutAlpha: Hedge Fund Trends &#38; Alternative Investment Analysis</title>
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	<description>A finance blog about hedge funds, portable alpha and alternative investing.</description>
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		<title>Part I: Nuggets vs. Pioneers: Is Venture Capital Dying?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/23/nuggets-vs-pioneers-is-venture-capital-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/23/nuggets-vs-pioneers-is-venture-capital-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Part I of a three-part article, guest columnist John Bhadki looks at the health of venture capital.]]></description>
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		<title>CFTC Approves New Swaps Rules: Uses Some Old Jargon</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/22/cftc-approves-new-swaps-rules-uses-some-old-jargon/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/22/cftc-approves-new-swaps-rules-uses-some-old-jargon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the Dodd-Frank Act, and the implementing rules now approved by the CFTC, trades that aren't "large notional swaps" are to be reported more rapidly and thoroughly than those that are. This of course makes the definition of a large notional swap (a/k/a a block trade) an important matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Parking Lot Arbitrage: The Latest Trend in Indian Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/21/parking-lot-arbitrage/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/21/parking-lot-arbitrage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alternative investments have always been the home of innovation. Guest columnist Sourabh Jeswani looks at parking lots as the latest innovation in the Indian real estate market.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doing Penance for the Draw-down</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/20/doing-penance-for-the-draw-down/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/20/doing-penance-for-the-draw-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Under standard portfolio theory assumptions, it takes three times longer to recover from the maximum draw-down for a particular strategy than it does to get there. Fortunately, those assumptions seem to be wrong in a way that allows for a more rapid return to a high water mark.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>PrevInvest: Fishing for Yield in a World of Liquidity</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/19/previnvest-fishing-for-yield-in-a-world-of-liquidity/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/19/previnvest-fishing-for-yield-in-a-world-of-liquidity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asset pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report by PrevInvest, the "Investment Outlook &#038; Hedge Fund Strategies Insight Report," focuses on the consequences of the race to the bottom among the world's industrialized nations and their central banks, and the way this has created a lot of sloshing-around of liquidity looking for profitable channels. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abstraction, Patents, and the Latest Alice Ruling: A Scorecard</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/16/abstraction-patents-and-the-latest-alice-ruling-a-scorecard/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/16/abstraction-patents-and-the-latest-alice-ruling-a-scorecard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Circuit's effort to address en banc the district court's rejection of the applicability of patent law to a fairly commonplace hedge against settlement risk seems to have broken down in confusion. This may have profound implications for both the traditional and the alternative asset management industry. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Mere Whisper of the Name &#8216;Soros&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/15/the-mere-whisper-of-the-name-soros/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/15/the-mere-whisper-of-the-name-soros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Currencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Coverage of Hedge Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Facile parallels notwithstanding, neither the argument Druckenmiller made at Sohn nor any other good reasons that may now exist for shorting the Aussie have a lot to do with the case against the pound in 1992. That tug-of-war occurred in a unique context, not here replicated. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The EU’s AIFMD and Your Road Show</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/14/compliance-and-the-aifmd/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/14/compliance-and-the-aifmd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIFMD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Shane Brett, of Global Perspectives, makes the point that the "non-European world" is in no position to ignore the implementation of AIFMD. Although the implementation will be gradual, by 2018 any manager from anywhere who wants to bring his road show to a European city will have to be fully compliant. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Extraterritorial Effect of Swaps Rules</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/13/the-extraterritorial-effect-of-swaps-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/13/the-extraterritorial-effect-of-swaps-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new SEC proposal, promulgated May 1, would provide that Dodd-Frank requirements regarding swaps apply if a transaction is entered into by a U.S. person or conducted within the U.S. but that an entity operating outside the U.S. may be able to substitute foreign regulatory requirements for the U.S. requirements if the extraterritorial party's home system produces comparable regulatory outcomes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Reductionist View of BAB, Debunked</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/12/a-reductionist-view-of-bab-debunked/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/12/a-reductionist-view-of-bab-debunked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Asness, Frazzini and Pedersen produce data indicating that over a long period in the U.S., a regular bet-against-beta strategy, one not designed either to accentuate or to eliminate differences among the different industries represented in the portfolio, earned CAPM alpha of 0.73. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merger Arb: Dampers and Bright Spots</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/09/merger-arb-dampers-and-bright-spots/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/09/merger-arb-dampers-and-bright-spots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve ministries in the People's Republic of China, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, have together released guidelines for accelerating M&#038;A activity in key industries. this is one of the "bright spots" that may lighten up the future for the M&#038;A world, though macro-economic realities in the U.S. and Europe are holding it back.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Cauldron of Contemporary Trading Technology</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/08/the-cauldron-of-contemporary-trading-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/08/the-cauldron-of-contemporary-trading-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algorithmic and high-frequency trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With a wide range of troubling issues on my mind, I recently consulted a sage of the trading-algorithm world, Greg Woods, the head of algorithmic execution, listed derivatives and foreign exchange for Deutsche Bank Securities. He has more than twenty years of experience in the broad IT area.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Bayesian Rethinks CAPM</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/07/a-bayesian-rethinks-capm/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/07/a-bayesian-rethinks-capm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A portfolio becomes optimal by virtue not merely of what assets are in it, but by virtue of what is paid for each. Examining the implications of that point, Professor Johnstone finds a "logical circularity built into the CAPM equilibrium pricing mechanism."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unlocking Alpha in the New Normal</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/06/unlocking-alpha-in-the-new-normal/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/06/unlocking-alpha-in-the-new-normal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algorithmic and high-frequency trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-frequency trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OneMarketData]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist Louis Lovas looks at data management in the world of algorithmic trading.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Going Public: Endowment performance at our great state universities</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/05/going-public-endowment-performance-at-our-great-state-universities-2/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/05/going-public-endowment-performance-at-our-great-state-universities-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Skorina Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist Charles Skorina looks at the performance of the "public ivies."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Agecroft Partners Believes Hedge Fund Branding Drives a Majority Of Asset Flows</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/02/agecroft-partners-believes-hedge-fund-branding-drives-a-majority-of-asset-flows/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/02/agecroft-partners-believes-hedge-fund-branding-drives-a-majority-of-asset-flows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
By Don Steinbrugge
Since the market correction of 2008, a vast majority of hedge fund net asset flows have gone to a small minority of hedge funds with the strongest brands, marking a change from the pre-2008 environment. A brand is an investor’s perception of the overall quality of a hedge fund based on multiple evaluation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Replication: A Re-examination of Two Key Studies</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/01/hedge-fund-replication-a-re-examination-of-two-key-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/05/01/hedge-fund-replication-a-re-examination-of-two-key-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Beta & Hedge Fund Replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist Andrew Beer re-visits two significant studies on hedge fund replication.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Paulson-versus-Krugman Revisited: Not a Keynesian clincher</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/30/paulson-versus-krugman-revisited-not-a-keynesian-clincher/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/30/paulson-versus-krugman-revisited-not-a-keynesian-clincher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Paulson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Noah Smith, an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook and a very sharp blogger (Noahpinion), expressed recently an insight on his blog worth whatever additional exposure I can give it here.
This is especially so because the title Smith gives his blog entry, “KrugTron the Invincible” may be one that does Smith himself a disservice. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ernst &amp; Young Recall Jamesian Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/29/ernst-young-recall-jamesian-philosophy/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/29/ernst-young-recall-jamesian-philosophy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E&Y]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernst & Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent and ongoing transformations in the PE industry and its institutional contexts have created a demand for a more robust infrastructure: mid or back-office functions are the weight-bearing beams of PE firms.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Present and Future of Actively Managed ETFs</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/28/28586/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/28/28586/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent paper by the SEI in collaboration with ETF Trends explains that the share creation/redemption process sets up a feature of ETFs, and in particular of active ETFs, that constitutes a potential competitive disadvantage vis-à-vis mutual funds. The former, not the latter, are susceptible to front running.
 ]]></description>
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		<title>Australian News: Part II</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/25/australian-news-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/25/australian-news-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset allocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier scholarship, largely devoted to the U.S. equities context, has indicated that well-known predictors don't predict well in out-of-sample contexts. But by combining fifteen factors, and by moving the scene of their study to Australian, four scholars have obtained a more upbeat result.]]></description>
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		<title>Australian News: Part I</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/24/australian-news-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/24/australian-news-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Algorithmic and high-frequency trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dark trading in Australia is becoming more multilateral and 'market-like' over time, a task force has found. That doesn't sound especially alarming, but ASIC believes the situation may encourage breaches of the Market Integrity Rules and the Corporations Act.]]></description>
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		<title>A Long-Dead Mathematician and Some Very Lively Problems</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/23/a-long-dead-mathematician-and-some-very-lively-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/23/a-long-dead-mathematician-and-some-very-lively-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CAPM / Alpha Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[D.J. Johnstone of the University of Sydney Business School tells us that if we understand Bayesian probability theory, we'll see that even a very informative signal can bring an increase in uncertainty, thereby raising the cost of capital. This is at least a little bit counter-intuitive, offending the verities about how wonderful is transparency. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds as Metaphor: And Not in a Good Way</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/22/hedge-funds-as-metaphor-and-not-in-a-good-way/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/22/hedge-funds-as-metaphor-and-not-in-a-good-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Coverage of Hedge Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Stockman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LTCM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One take-away from David Stockman's new best selling book is that the phrase "hedge fund" may well be on its way beyond descriptive significance. In the public realm, a "hedge fund" is now as much a metaphor as is a "Trojan horse." It is becoming a metaphor for any institution's failure to hedge.  ]]></description>
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		<title>How Hedge Funds Need to Adapt Part II</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/21/how-hedge-funds-need-to-adapt-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/21/how-hedge-funds-need-to-adapt-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Operations and Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part II of a new SEI report on hedge funds and adapting to survival.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/21/how-hedge-funds-need-to-adapt-part-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Another Energy Boom is on the Way</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/17/another-energy-boom-is-on-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/17/another-energy-boom-is-on-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist Dan Dicker looks at oil and energy.]]></description>
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		<title>EDHEC on Time Horizons and Glide Paths</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/16/edhec-on-time-horizons-and-glide-paths/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/16/edhec-on-time-horizons-and-glide-paths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Risk management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edhec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Generalized considerations about equity and mean reversion have been institutionalized with the creation of glide path or "life-cycle" funds. but the authors of a new EDHEC paper contend that the glide paths defined by these funds don't represent the optimal approach to portfolio allocation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Japan as Hedge Fund Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/15/japan-as-hedge-fund-opportunity/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/15/japan-as-hedge-fund-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All three classes of hedge fund outperformed the relevant index, Topix 1000,  in the period since January 2004. Also, both broad based indexes and two of the HF indexes show a sharp uptick on the right hand edge of the graph, reflecting the ascension of Prime Minister Abe and the aggressive policies of the Bank of Japan.]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Diversification is Good for Your PE Allocation Too</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/14/study-diversification-is-good-for-your-pe-allocation-too/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/14/study-diversification-is-good-for-your-pe-allocation-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new paper in the Journal of Investment Management claims that five sophisticated high-profile institutions could have made better use of the PE portion of their portfolios over the period 1999 to 2010 had they applied the insights of the founder of modern portfolio theory, Harry Markowitz. ]]></description>
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		<title>Is Tunisia the New Hot Spot for Energy Investors?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/11/is-tunisia-the-new-hot-spot-for-energy-investors-interview-with-john-nelson/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/11/is-tunisia-the-new-hot-spot-for-energy-investors-interview-with-john-nelson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[James Stafford talks to John Nelson, CEO of Africa Hydrocarbons Inc. about what should be on the energy investors' watch list.]]></description>
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		<title>Rest in Peace Margaret Thatcher</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/10/rest-in-peace-margaret-thatcher/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/10/rest-in-peace-margaret-thatcher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Currencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The great success of the Thatcher-era Big Bang was that it shocked the Square Mile out of insularity. The turnover and value of London-based equity transactions increased from roughly £500 million in 1986 to more than £2 billion nine years later. ]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Corporate Giving Stays Close to Home</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/09/canadian-corporate-giving-stays-close-to-home/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/09/canadian-corporate-giving-stays-close-to-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Charitable initiatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One hundred eighty corporations completed a survey that focused on their giving -- their corporate community investment activity -- in 2011. One inference from the survey responses is that previous estimates of such giving have been low. ]]></description>
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		<title>US Debt Deadlock: A Big Fat Tail</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/08/us-debt-deadlock-a-big-fat-tail/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/08/us-debt-deadlock-a-big-fat-tail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The respondents in the Commonfund survey have changed their view of the most pressing tail risks from last year to this. A year ago, 32 percent of the respondents saw an EU crisis as the most significant risk going forward. No longer. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Hedge Funds Need to Adapt: Part I</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/07/how-hedge-funds-need-to-adapt-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/07/how-hedge-funds-need-to-adapt-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Few managers would be surprised,” SEI says, “that nearly one-third of the institutions queried in SEI’s 2012 survey reported making their due diligence processes more robust over the last two years.” The new robustness in the search for the nature and sustainability of the funds’ edge involves a new granularity, the questioning of specific investment decisions in the context of portfolio construction models.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Presses: IOSCO Calls for Balancing and Monitoring</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/04/stop-the-presses-iosco-calls-for-balancing-and-monitoring/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/04/stop-the-presses-iosco-calls-for-balancing-and-monitoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
IOSCO's new draft report says that regulators ought to do a lot of "monitoring" of the consequences of changes in market structure.  A little less predictably: it goes into some detail on the diversity of regulatory systems that bear on the question of fragmentation. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/04/stop-the-presses-iosco-calls-for-balancing-and-monitoring/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Is This the End of the Gilded Age for Hedge Funds?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/03/is-this-the-end-of-the-gilded-age-for-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/03/is-this-the-end-of-the-gilded-age-for-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["America’s top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all the CEOs of the S&#038;P 500 combined.”????--The Economist, October 2012

Hedge Funds have had an incredible run over the last 2 decades. The annual salaries and bonuses of the most successful managers have been amongst the highest paid to anyone, anywhere, ever. Astronomical wealth has kept everything from top end international property to luxury goods to private yachts afloat for many years. ?This is starting to change. Multiple headwinds of lackluster performance, increasing competition and invasive regulation are starting to bite.]]></description>
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		<title>BVI Fund: Priority of Redeemed Members Upheld</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/02/bvi-fund-priority-of-redeemed-members-upheld/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/02/bvi-fund-priority-of-redeemed-members-upheld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Insolvency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happened when a liquidator on the British Virgin Islands sought directions from the trial judge that he be permitted to make a priority distribution to redeemed members? To the surprise of many working in that legal/financial space, the trial judge refused. The liquidator's first instinct, though, has now received vindication on appeal. ]]></description>
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		<title>The LIBOR Scandal: Not an Antitrust Issue</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/01/the-libor-scandal-not-an-antitrust-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/04/01/the-libor-scandal-not-an-antitrust-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Legislation/Court rulings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an odd-seeming juxtaposition, a decision issued by the U.S. District Court in Manhattan on March 29, one sharply limiting the private plaintiffs' lawsuit against the banks involved in the LIBOR scandal, relies upon a precedent set by the Supreme Court in 1977 involving ... bowling centers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas Fed. Judge: SEC May Proceed Against Cuban</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/31/dallas-fed-judge-sec-may-proceed-against-cuban/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/31/dallas-fed-judge-sec-may-proceed-against-cuban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Cuban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Though the charges against him are civil, not criminal, Mark Cuban may be the Amanda Knox of the jurisprudence of insider trading. He had reason to believe himself vindicated in July 2009, but now the SEC has successfully revived the matter and Cuban faces a trial. ]]></description>
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		<title>What SandRidge May Herald for Challenge Slates</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/27/what-sandridge-may-herald-for-challenge-slates/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/27/what-sandridge-may-herald-for-challenge-slates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Litigation before the Delaware Chancery Court, Kallick v. SandRidge, led to an opinion issued March 8 that addresses when a board of directors must approve a particular dissident slate for the purpose of avoiding a so-called “poison put.”]]></description>
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		<title>ISDA &amp; EDHEC Respond to Benchmarks Paper</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/26/isda-edhec-respond-to-benchmarks-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/26/isda-edhec-respond-to-benchmarks-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The benchmarking consultation paper from ESMA/EBA has produced intriguing responses from, among others, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the EDHEC-Risk Institute.]]></description>
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		<title>A Pseudo-Bankruptcy Proceeding for Sovereigns</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/25/a-pseudo-bankruptcy-proceeding-for-sovereigns/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/25/a-pseudo-bankruptcy-proceeding-for-sovereigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the latest hearing in the NML matter, certain attorneys sounded like members of the bankruptcy bar, urging a practical approach to divvying up an estate's assets. In coming days, we'll see whether Argentina itself is willing to make a case in those terms. ]]></description>
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		<title>NG Futures Traders: Who’s Your Regulator?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/24/ng-futures-traders-who%e2%80%99s-your-regulator/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/24/ng-futures-traders-who%e2%80%99s-your-regulator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
As a three-judge panel of the D.C. Appeals Court saw it, there were two questions in the Brian Hunter case. First, did the CEA’s language encompass manipulation of NG futures contracts as part of the exclusive jurisdiction of intervener CFTC? Second, if so, was that repealed or modified by the 2005 legislation? ]]></description>
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		<title>An Earnings Report Every Hedge Fund Manager Should Review</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/21/28378/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/21/28378/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Management Fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/21/28378/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist Diane Harrison looks at the future of hedge fund fees.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Survey: MF Global and Peregrine Have Left a Lasting Mark</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/20/survey-mf-global-and-peregrine-have-left-a-lasting-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/20/survey-mf-global-and-peregrine-have-left-a-lasting-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ninety-one percent of the respondents to a recent survey strongly believed there was a breakdown in audit procedures in the futures world. The comments section for that question displayed what the survey sponsor, Horizon  Cash Management, calls “widespread frustration and anger.”  ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/20/survey-mf-global-and-peregrine-have-left-a-lasting-mark/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dollars and Nuggets Part II: Spain, Cyprus, and the Future</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/19/dollars-and-nuggets-part-ii-spain-cyprus-and-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/19/dollars-and-nuggets-part-ii-spain-cyprus-and-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard metals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The present global monetary situation, plainly, is not at equilibrium. Everybody else’s currencies depend upon the dollar, the dollar depends upon petroleum, and petroleum depends upon … whatever. Changes will continue (through a succession of crises if no other way can be developed) until a new equilibrium can be attained.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/19/dollars-and-nuggets-part-ii-spain-cyprus-and-the-future/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dollars and Nuggets Part I: Cycles and the Big Picture</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/18/dollars-and-nuggets-part-i-cycles-and-the-big-picture/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/18/dollars-and-nuggets-part-i-cycles-and-the-big-picture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard metals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer the CME Group's European clearing house for derivative products announced that unallocated gold would serve as collateral for margin cover. Was that the sort of illusory good news that marks the top of a trend or was that a symptom of a secular trend toward the de facto monetization of gold that will re-assert itself once the present cyclical down move is done?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/18/dollars-and-nuggets-part-i-cycles-and-the-big-picture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Rebel Speaks Against the Hub-and-Spoke World</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/17/a-rebel-speaks-against-the-hub-and-spoke-world/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/17/a-rebel-speaks-against-the-hub-and-spoke-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cromwell Coulson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OTC Marktets Group]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as one buys bourbon from a retailer who buys it from a distributor who buys it from the manufacturer, so in the world of stocks someone desiring a share of Apple will call a broker who will often go through an exchange which matches him with the broker for a seller. But in a networked world, one can disintermediate. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/17/a-rebel-speaks-against-the-hub-and-spoke-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cap Gains Tax Records: The Fall-Out of the EESA of 2008</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/14/cap-gains-tax-records-the-fall-out-of-the-eesa-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/14/cap-gains-tax-records-the-fall-out-of-the-eesa-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 the U.S. Congress mandated a significant compliance upgrade for brokers and other financial intermediaries, in regard to their 1099-B income reporting obligations. Now new IRS releases recognize that discrepancies will exist between a taxpayer's records of securities transactions and those of the broker, and they attempt to adjust for that. But traps for the unwary remain.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/14/cap-gains-tax-records-the-fall-out-of-the-eesa-of-2008/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oil Explorers Beware: Hackers Are Watching What You Know</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/13/oil-explorers-beware-hackers-are-watching-what-you-know/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/13/oil-explorers-beware-hackers-are-watching-what-you-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyber risk management is critical new exploration territory for oil companies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/13/oil-explorers-beware-hackers-are-watching-what-you-know/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Accountants’ Quarrel: How Many Buckets for Credit Impairment</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/12/accountants%e2%80%99-quarrel-how-many-buckets-for-credit-impairment/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/12/accountants%e2%80%99-quarrel-how-many-buckets-for-credit-impairment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FASB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A threatened divergence arises because the IASB proposes to distinguish between assets with a 12-month allowance balance and those with a lifetime expected loss balance. This is a 'two bucket' model, according to an update recently presented to the G-20, although for historical reasons it is still sometimes called the three-bucket model.]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Is Almost Here and There&#8217;s No Magic To Counter It: Interview with Dave Summers</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/11/peak-oil-is-almost-here-and-theres-no-magic-to-counter-it-interview-with-dave-summers/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/11/peak-oil-is-almost-here-and-theres-no-magic-to-counter-it-interview-with-dave-summers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist James Stafford interview Dr. Dave Summers about peak oil.
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		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/11/peak-oil-is-almost-here-and-theres-no-magic-to-counter-it-interview-with-dave-summers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>IOSCO: 15 Rules for Avoiding Liquidity Failures</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/10/iosco-15-rules-for-avoiding-liquidity-failures/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/10/iosco-15-rules-for-avoiding-liquidity-failures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Collective investment schemes aren't banks. They aren't in the maturity transformation business. Furthermore, they don't want to stumble into that line of business accidentally, either.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/10/iosco-15-rules-for-avoiding-liquidity-failures/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>HFT-Limiting Experiment Underway in Germany</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/07/hft-limiting-experiment-underway-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/07/hft-limiting-experiment-underway-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algorithmic and high-frequency trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-frequency trading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Germans seem prepared to experiment with limits on high-frequency trading, as we see in a recent Bundestag vote that leaves the particulars to BaFin. I spoke recently to David Weild, a former vice chairman of NASDAQ, about this experiment and about related issues.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/07/hft-limiting-experiment-underway-in-germany/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Lending Securities: Which Mutual Funds Do It Best</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/06/lending-securities-which-mutual-funds-do-it-best/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/06/lending-securities-which-mutual-funds-do-it-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A newly released paper concludes that the returns many mutual funds make from lending their portfolio securities increase as the directors on their boards become more independent. Separately, it is a good sign if the directors have, as the saying goes, 'skin in the game.']]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Be Careful: Russia is Back to Stay in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/05/be-careful-russia-is-back-to-stay-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/05/be-careful-russia-is-back-to-stay-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Felix Imonti looks at Russia's presence in the Middle East.]]></description>
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		<title>Lehman: Don’t Blame Canada: Blame Iksil!</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/04/lehman-don%e2%80%99t-blame-canada-blame-iksil/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/04/lehman-don%e2%80%99t-blame-canada-blame-iksil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Iksil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPMorgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Whale]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lehman's adversary proceeding may yet raise the important issues of risk management that arise out of the relationships among the major Wall Street players at times of crisis. But the latest 'Blame the whale' request by the bankruptcy lawyers involved is a blatant distraction and diversion. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/04/lehman-don%e2%80%99t-blame-canada-blame-iksil/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Basel/IOSCO ‘Near Final’ Proposal: Part Two</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/03/baseliosco-%e2%80%98near-final%e2%80%99-proposal-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/03/baseliosco-%e2%80%98near-final%e2%80%99-proposal-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IOSCO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second of a two-part discussion of a paper jointly issued by Basel and IOSCO on margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. The new paper solicits feedback on the phase-in timeline it proposes, a phase-in designed to provide flexibility so the affected markets can meet "operational and logistical challenges" by which they might otherwise be stymied. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/03/03/baseliosco-%e2%80%98near-final%e2%80%99-proposal-part-two/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Basel/IOSCO ‘Near Final’ Proposal: Part One</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/28/baseliosco-%e2%80%98near-final%e2%80%99-proposal-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/28/baseliosco-%e2%80%98near-final%e2%80%99-proposal-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IOSCO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a two-part discussion of a paper jointly issued by Basel and IOSCO on margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. The new paper solicits feedback on only four still-open issues, and the list of issues itself illustrates the near finality they claim for this paper.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 100th Birthday to the U.S. Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/27/happy-100th-birthday-to-the-u-s-federal-reserve/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/27/happy-100th-birthday-to-the-u-s-federal-reserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bernanke says:  The yield on Fed assets in excess of their funding costs may fall in coming years (reducing profits), but should not fall below zero.

Brynjolfsson says: This is insanely hopeful and extremely irresponsible.
]]></description>
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		<title>Allen &amp; Overy Sides with Pari Passu Pessimists</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/26/allen-overy-sides-with-pari-passu-pessimists/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/26/allen-overy-sides-with-pari-passu-pessimists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging markets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Allen &#038; Overy’s white paper puts it among those who take a rather gloom-and-doom attitude toward the likely consequences of a recent Second Circuit decision on Argentina's default. Personally, I don't agree that the sky is falling on the sovereign debt market.]]></description>
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		<title>Aroway&#8217;s Chris Cooper on the New Oil Frontier</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/25/28262/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/25/28262/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aroway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil prices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The oil and gas game can be a tricky one for junior companies, but if played right the pay-off can be massive. At a time when juniors are risking a lot in volatile venues in the Middle East and Africa, Canada's Aroway Energy (ARW) is planting its feet firmly in homeland soil and in conventional plays.

Why? Because for the smaller juniors this is not a long-term game and blowing all your capital to drill a single unconventional well in a risky frontier won't pay off. Canada still has plenty to offer for juniors, even though you have to kiss plenty of frogs to find the prince. The end game, after all, is merger and acquisition. James Stafford talks to Aroway CEO Chris Cooper.]]></description>
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		<title>Improving the Health of Healthcare Endowments</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/24/improving-the-health-of-healthcare-endowments/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/24/improving-the-health-of-healthcare-endowments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset allocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endowments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foundations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liquidity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The obvious reason for the allocation preferences of healthcare endowments is that they believe they need to remain very liquid. Jarvis, in this white paper, points out that the liquidity preference comes at a cost in performance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Private Equity: Problems and Disconnects</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/21/private-equity-problems-and-disconnects/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/21/private-equity-problems-and-disconnects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If PE managers want to raise money in the present environment, they have to be very clear with their potential investors about how their strategy will work, and they have to pay attention to what those investors are trying to tell them. Further, it might help if neither side in that equation pays too much attention to consultants.]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Laying Groundwork for Alt-Increments Trial</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/20/sec-laying-groundwork-for-alt-increments-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/20/sec-laying-groundwork-for-alt-increments-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the February 5th roundtable on the use and consequence of penny increments (decimalization), an event hosted by the SEC, several strong voices spoke in favor of alternative tick sizes, and others pressed for at least a pilot program. It appears that the SEC may have thought of this gathering as a way of laying the foundation for the latter. ]]></description>
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		<title>On Mutual Funds, Alternative Strategies, and Waterfalls</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/19/on-mutual-funds-alternative-strategies-and-waterfalls/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/19/on-mutual-funds-alternative-strategies-and-waterfalls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[130/30]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Mutual Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Siciliano, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, updated me on the state of retailization/convergence from the point of view of the mutual fund firm managements with whom he has conferred of late.  ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/19/on-mutual-funds-alternative-strategies-and-waterfalls/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Smaller Hedge Fund Managers Outperform:  A Study of Nearly 3,000 Equity Long/Short Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/18/smaller-hedge-fund-managers-outperform-a-study-of-nearly-3000-equity-longshort-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/18/smaller-hedge-fund-managers-outperform-a-study-of-nearly-3000-equity-longshort-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Beachhead Capital looks at performance in the long/short equity sector and finds that small funds outperform the large.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/18/smaller-hedge-fund-managers-outperform-a-study-of-nearly-3000-equity-longshort-hedge-funds/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Average hedge fund fee significantly lower than reported</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/14/average-hedge-fund-fee-significantly-lower-than-reported/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/14/average-hedge-fund-fee-significantly-lower-than-reported/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Steinbrugge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist Don Steinbrugge looks at hedge fund fees.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/14/average-hedge-fund-fee-significantly-lower-than-reported/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Intellectual Property Rights in Software: Go Ask Alice</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/13/intellectual-property-rights-in-software-go-ask-alice/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/13/intellectual-property-rights-in-software-go-ask-alice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers argued an intellectual property issue of great significance to our readers before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals en banc, on Friday, February 8, 2013. They were disputing a patent claim that, if upheld, will make life a lot more complicated than it already is for those attempting to provide the infrastructure of the alternative-investment industry.
 ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Japan’s Largest Banks Invest in the Solar Industry, Expecting a Huge Boom in 2013</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/12/japan%e2%80%99s-largest-banks-invest-in-the-solar-industry-expecting-a-huge-boom-in-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/12/japan%e2%80%99s-largest-banks-invest-in-the-solar-industry-expecting-a-huge-boom-in-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative energy investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar energy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com looks at how Japanese banks are investing in solar energy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/12/japan%e2%80%99s-largest-banks-invest-in-the-solar-industry-expecting-a-huge-boom-in-2013/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>UCITS Brand: Time for a Restricted Extension</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/11/ucits-brand-time-for-a-restricted-extension/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/11/ucits-brand-time-for-a-restricted-extension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCITS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCITs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The authors want a new "Restricted UCITS" label created to ward off a possible arms race in which depositaries otherwise will attempt to satisfy their clients in a competitive way in an escalation that will end with them "offering guarantees for risks they cannot really control."  ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/11/ucits-brand-time-for-a-restricted-extension/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Leak Detection End the Pipeline Impasse? Interview with Adrian Banica</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/10/can-leak-detection-end-the-pipeline-impasse-interview-with-adrian-banica/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/10/can-leak-detection-end-the-pipeline-impasse-interview-with-adrian-banica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adrian Banica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oilprice.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synodon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest columnist James Stafford, Oilprice.com, interviews Synodon's Adrian Banica.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/10/can-leak-detection-end-the-pipeline-impasse-interview-with-adrian-banica/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>College Endowments: Bad News and a Slender Silver Lining</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/07/college-endowments-bad-news-and-a-slender-silver-lining/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/07/college-endowments-bad-news-and-a-slender-silver-lining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonfund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endowments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foundations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NACUBO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the alternative-investment industry the takeaway from the NACUBO-Commonfund Study this year may be that there is a long-term trend among endowments toward increased allocations to alternative strategies, and that this trend continues.  The overall such allocation increased by one percentage point from 2011 to 2012: to 54 percent.]]></description>
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		<title>HF Investors and Managers Differ On Impact of New Regulations</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/06/hf-investors-and-managers-differ-on-impact-of-new-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/06/hf-investors-and-managers-differ-on-impact-of-new-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Forty-three percent of managers see Dodd-Frank as having a negative impact; 35 percent see it as having no impact at all; only 22 percent see it as a positive. The positive they see in it may simply be the presumed improved access to institutions that are “keen to invest in vehicles with some degree of regulated oversight,” in the words of Preqin's Amy Bensted.]]></description>
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		<title>Pensions: Public Choices and Investor Caution</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/05/pensions-public-choices-and-investor-caution/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/05/pensions-public-choices-and-investor-caution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pension funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public pension funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The great political problem (what economists these days call a 'public choice' problem) is that politicians worldwide have every incentive to defer or avoid decisions about pension reform, however urgent or necessary that reform. Investors should be aware, and be wary. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Portfolio Risk: The Case for Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/04/portfolio-risk-the-case-for-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/04/portfolio-risk-the-case-for-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Operations and Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A FinCad white paper looks at the efficiencies and cost-effectiveness of outsourcing risk analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>Intermediaries:  Watch Who You’re Calling Sophisticated</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/03/intermediaries-watch-who-you%e2%80%99re-calling-sophisticated/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/02/03/intermediaries-watch-who-you%e2%80%99re-calling-sophisticated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermediaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IOSCO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IOSCO reminds investment banks and other intermediaries that they "may make the reasonable choice of treating all customers as retail because doing so may be more cost-effective than establishing separate categories for customers." Those words appear in a footnote but, given the context created in the rest of the report, they seem rather pointed. ]]></description>
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		<title>Risk Management versus Risk Mitigation &amp; Absolute Return versus Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/31/risk-management-versus-risk-mitigation-absolute-return-versus-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/31/risk-management-versus-risk-mitigation-absolute-return-versus-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absolute return]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsche Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rene Levesque looks at risk management and absolute return from an industry practitioner's point of view.]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Amusement Value of Icahn v. Ackman</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/30/beyond-the-amusement-value-of-icahn-v-ackman/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/30/beyond-the-amusement-value-of-icahn-v-ackman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Ackman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Icahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbalife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pershing Square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The crux of whether a particular MLM is a pyramid scheme, and thus is illegal, is this: is a particular participant paid primarily on the basis of the products he sells or primarily on the basis of the new participants he recruits? The crux for Ackman's trade is whether he can persuade enforcement authorities that it is the latter.]]></description>
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		<title>The Political Implications of America&#8217;s Oil &amp; Gas Boom</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/29/the-political-implications-of-americas-oil-gas-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/29/the-political-implications-of-americas-oil-gas-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Kwak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil and gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[James Stafford of Oilprice.com talks to economist James Kwak about the implications of the U.S. oil and gas boom.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/29/the-political-implications-of-americas-oil-gas-boom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Investing in Britain’s Infrastructure: With and Without Guarantees</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/28/investing-in-britain%e2%80%99s-infrastructure-with-and-without-guarantees/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/28/investing-in-britain%e2%80%99s-infrastructure-with-and-without-guarantees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The bottom line of EDHEC's study is that there is no need to create new public sector liabilities to get private sector institutions to invest in infrastructure. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/28/investing-in-britain%e2%80%99s-infrastructure-with-and-without-guarantees/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<item>
		<title>A Look at the World Diamond Market</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/27/a-look-at-the-world-diamond-market/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/27/a-look-at-the-world-diamond-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diamonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DeBeers Group]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AllAboutAlpha's Vikas Shah talks to David Prager of DeBeers about the diamond market.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/27/a-look-at-the-world-diamond-market/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>DRC: Finding Red Flags in the ADVs</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/24/drc-finding-red-flags-in-the-advs/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/24/drc-finding-red-flags-in-the-advs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[due diligence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-eight percent of the pension investment consultants included in a recent report have one or another sort of red flag in their present or their past: many of them because they run their business in a way that generates conflicts that ought to be of concern to pension plan sponsors.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/24/drc-finding-red-flags-in-the-advs/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Superstition of Mean Reversion: JPMorgan Edition</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/23/the-superstition-of-mean-reversion-jpmorgan-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/23/the-superstition-of-mean-reversion-jpmorgan-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JP Morgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Whale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synthetic credit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of betting on black or red at the roulette table. If red comes up a lot, some people will be tempted to start putting all their chips on black. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/23/the-superstition-of-mean-reversion-jpmorgan-edition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Global Economy in 2013 &#8211; 5 Key Economic Trends?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/22/the-global-economy-in-2013-5-key-economic-trends/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/22/the-global-economy-in-2013-5-key-economic-trends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shane Brett looks at 2013 from a global perspective.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/22/the-global-economy-in-2013-5-key-economic-trends/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Collateral Crunch: Confusion and some Relief</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/21/the-collateral-crunch-confusion-and-some-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/21/the-collateral-crunch-confusion-and-some-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collateral crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derivatives research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one authority puts it, 'the tectonic plates are shifting' in the world of derivatives exchanges and clearing. How can institutions keep their balance during the earthquakes? The Basel Committee may just have offered some help. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/21/the-collateral-crunch-confusion-and-some-relief/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Alternative Theory of Natural Selection</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/17/an-alternative-theory-of-natural-selection/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/17/an-alternative-theory-of-natural-selection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panegyric Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Harrison looks at marketing opportunities for hedge funds in 2013.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/17/an-alternative-theory-of-natural-selection/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Women and Alternatives: A Long-Deferred Tipping Point</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/16/women-and-alternatives-a-long-deferred-tipping-point/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/16/women-and-alternatives-a-long-deferred-tipping-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-net-worth investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rothstein Kass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women-owned hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are managing the portfolio of an institution that invests in hedge funds, you might want to ensure that some sizable portion of the HF-allocated assets go to funds managed by women-led firms. In this, you will have company. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/16/women-and-alternatives-a-long-deferred-tipping-point/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fear Creates Early Dividends and Requires a List of Winners</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/15/fear-creates-early-dividends-and-requires-a-list-of-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/15/fear-creates-early-dividends-and-requires-a-list-of-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High-net-worth investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth-X]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=28000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wealth-X looks at how the Cliff "settlement" affects the ultra-high-net-worth investor.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/15/fear-creates-early-dividends-and-requires-a-list-of-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Delaware Struggles with Corporate-Auction Questions: Don’t Ask</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/14/delaware-struggles-with-corporate-auction-questions-don%e2%80%99t-ask/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/14/delaware-struggles-with-corporate-auction-questions-don%e2%80%99t-ask/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The directors of a corporation selling itself have a duty to their shareholders to familiarize themselves with all the material facts, and they are to be discouraged from stuffing wax in their ears in order to avoid hearing anything inconvenient. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/14/delaware-struggles-with-corporate-auction-questions-don%e2%80%99t-ask/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends Predicted for 2013</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/13/top-hedge-fund-industry-trends-predicted-for-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/13/top-hedge-fund-industry-trends-predicted-for-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agecroft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Steinbrugge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Veteran hedge fund marketer and institutional investor Don Steinbrugge looks at some of the hedge fund trends for 2013.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/13/top-hedge-fund-industry-trends-predicted-for-2013/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drucker: In search of responsibility</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/10/drucker-in-search-of-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/10/drucker-in-search-of-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Skorina Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Skorina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Schumpeter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pension fund investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pension funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Drucker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Skorina looks at the pension fund situation and what's changed over the years and what hasn't...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/10/drucker-in-search-of-responsibility/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bondholder v. Sovereign: An Empirical Analysis</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/09/bondholder-v-sovereign-an-empirical-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/09/bondholder-v-sovereign-an-empirical-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereign debt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 1992 the Supreme Court ruled that the issuance of bonds is itself a commercial activity, thus bond defaults by sovereigns are clearly subject to litigation in U.S. courts. One of the more intuitive findings of the authors of a new empirical study of such lawsuits is that the identity of the characteristic plaintiffs has changed over time. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/09/bondholder-v-sovereign-an-empirical-analysis/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter to Basel Asks: Does Gradualism Matter?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/08/letter-to-basel-asks-does-gradualism-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/08/letter-to-basel-asks-does-gradualism-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So why not just say: ‘everybody has to have a CCP for everything!’? If we cannot for reasons of practicality do that all at once, why not do it more gradually? There are lots of good answers to that. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/08/letter-to-basel-asks-does-gradualism-matter/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Move to Managed Account Platforms</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/07/the-move-to-managed-account-platforms/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/07/the-move-to-managed-account-platforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed account platforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shane Brett looks at distribution and the pros and cons of managed account platforms.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/07/the-move-to-managed-account-platforms/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>B of E Studies HFT: Begins and Ends with Ambivalence</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/06/b-of-e-studies-hft-begins-and-ends-with-ambivalence/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/06/b-of-e-studies-hft-begins-and-ends-with-ambivalence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algorithmic and high-frequency trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[algorithmic trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HFT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-frequency trading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank of England white paper on high-frequency trading yields little in the way of return.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/06/b-of-e-studies-hft-begins-and-ends-with-ambivalence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Like Wine: Hedge Funds Have a &#8216;Terroir&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/03/like-wine-hedge-funds-have-a-terroir/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/03/like-wine-hedge-funds-have-a-terroir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge fund partners and traders in a given city socialize together, they talk shop, and they may have histories together in other local institutions before opening their respective hedge fund firms. They naturally develop locally distinctive ideas and practices, such as the value emphasis in Boston, or the relatively lower fees distinctive to Dallas.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/03/like-wine-hedge-funds-have-a-terroir/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>AIFMD Still Gives ‘Substantial Leverage’ a Number</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/02/aifmd-still-gives-%e2%80%98substantial-leverage%e2%80%99-a-number/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/02/aifmd-still-gives-%e2%80%98substantial-leverage%e2%80%99-a-number/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIFMD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the new directive, if an alternative investment fund manager manages AIFs that employ "substantial leverage," then this AIFM must include in the information it reports to its EU member home state's competent authority the overall level of leverage employed by each fund. That authority may then require further information as it pertains to systemic risk. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/02/aifmd-still-gives-%e2%80%98substantial-leverage%e2%80%99-a-number/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top Five Alpha Stories of 2012</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/01/top-five-alpha-stories-of-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/01/top-five-alpha-stories-of-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What may have been the single most important alpha-related story of this busy year is that a former manager of Bain Capital failed in his effort to become President of the United States. In the course of the effort, Gov. Romney and his adversaries made the PE world a mainstream political issue to an extent it had never been before.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/01/01/top-five-alpha-stories-of-2012/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/26/happy-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/26/happy-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kfox</dc:creator>
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The staff of AllAboutAlpha.com wishes you a happy and safe holiday season!
We shall resume our normal publishing schedule on 2 January 2013.
Kind regards,
Kristin M. Fox
Managing Editor

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