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		<title>Casella on Future of Hedge Fund Industry, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/02/casella-on-future-of-hedge-fund-industry-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/02/casella-on-future-of-hedge-fund-industry-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Casella, leader of the U.S. alternatives group at PwC, explains that no manager "ever wants to put gates up or to announce a suspension," and talks about how the contract provisions that provide for such powers have been modified of late. This is part of the broader issue of the alignment of interests.]]></description>
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		<title>McKinsey: Allocations Will Rise Despite Sticky Fees</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/31/mckinsey-allocations-will-rise-despite-sticky-fees/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/31/mckinsey-allocations-will-rise-despite-sticky-fees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asset allocation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The reason for the increased interest in alternatives, McKinsey says, isn’t that the alternatives’ managers are slashing the price of their services. It is, rather, a discontent with the return to be gained from traditional investment. “Even with downward pressure likely over the next few years, revenue yields for institutional alternative products should remain well above the 35 bps average earned on today’s traditional institutional products.”      ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mark Casella on the Future of Hedge Fund Industry: Part One</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/30/mark-casella-on-the-future-of-hedge-fund-industry-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/30/mark-casella-on-the-future-of-hedge-fund-industry-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funds of funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Casella, leader of the U.S. alternatives group at PwC, tells us why he thinks funds of funds still have a role to play in the future of the hedge fund industry, although "we have seen more and more institutions invest directly in hedge funds rather than through funds of funds." This is the first part of a two-part transcript of a broader discussion.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/30/mark-casella-on-the-future-of-hedge-fund-industry-part-one/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>More than $3 Trillion AUM for Top 100 Alternative Investment Managers</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/25/more-than-3-trillion-aum-for-top-100-alternative-investment-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/25/more-than-3-trillion-aum-for-top-100-alternative-investment-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The survey also asked that the asset managers state where their total assets are invested, using four geographical categories: Europe; Central/North America; Asia Pacific; Other. Commodity funds were easily the most heavily invested in C/NA, to the extent of 94 percent of their portfolios. Private equity funds are 61 percent invested in C/NA, and PE FoFs also have the majority of their portfolios there, at 54 percent.]]></description>
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		<title>Dear SEC: Comments on the JOBS Act</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/19/dear-sec-comments-on-the-jobs-act/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/19/dear-sec-comments-on-the-jobs-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A veteran of hedge funds and private equity, Jeff Joseph offers some comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the JOBS Act and what this legislation has the potential to mean to the global alternative investment community.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Citi Says: Second Big Wave of Allocations on the Way</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/10/citi-says-second-big-wave-of-allocations-on-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/07/10/citi-says-second-big-wave-of-allocations-on-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the introduction to their report, the authors quote one of their interviewees, a leader at a European pension fund, who said: “To me, investing is about going back to the basics. Why do I want to be in this asset class? Why do I want this product? Where does it fit in my portfolio?” Much of the report is structured as a discussion of two distinct shifts in the answers that have been given and are being given to those old queries.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Preqin to Hedge Funds: Wooing Institutions May Require Patience</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/27/preqin-to-hedge-funds-wooing-institutions-may-require-patience/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/27/preqin-to-hedge-funds-wooing-institutions-may-require-patience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset allocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Institutions aren’t to be rushed into committing to a hedge fund. The process can take more than a year. Preqin asked institutions: once a fund has caught their attention, specifically once they have first seen a fund proposal, how much time typically passes before they actually make an investment, if they do?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alpha Hunters: Looking at Alternative Investments From the Inside Out</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/07/alpha-hunters-looking-at-alternative-investments-from-the-inside-out/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/07/alpha-hunters-looking-at-alternative-investments-from-the-inside-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A deeper look at alternatives with Dr. Bob Swarup, a world-renowned expert and commentator on alternatives and financial markets as well as being a visiting fellow at London School of Economics.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sound Alternatives Practices in the Great White North</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/29/sound-alternatives-practices-in-the-great-white-north/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/29/sound-alternatives-practices-in-the-great-white-north/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The meat of the guide addresses what AIMA Canada considers sound practice in marketing and promotion, such as in the calculation and presentation of returns, in selecting a benchmark relevant to a specific strategy, and in explaining the various ratios used for the same purpose. It notes that the Association for Investment Management and Research’s Performance Presentation Standards (AIMR-PPS) recommend using a time-weighted method for the calculation of returns, a model otherwise known as the Modified Dietz method.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Not Just Fire Sales: Contrarian Hedge Funds Find Alpha</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/04/16/not-just-fire-sales-contrarian-hedge-funds-find-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/04/16/not-just-fire-sales-contrarian-hedge-funds-find-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although distressed“fire sales” are fewer in some periods than in others, it is true all around the business cycle that mutual fund managers face constraints related to the need “to cater to investors by investing in the hot stocks and by having a strong positive correlation  between their flow and the value of the assets in which they invest,” as a new academic paper explains. Hedge funds, with their more professional investors, their deliberate opacity, and their constraints upon withdrawal, aren’t subject to those constraints. Thus, when mutual funds are constrained to follow a trend, hedge funds are in a position to be contrarians.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Battle Cry for Hedge Funds—Separate but not Equal</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-battle-cry-for-hedge-funds%e2%80%94separate-but-not-equal/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-battle-cry-for-hedge-funds%e2%80%94separate-but-not-equal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Harrison examines the state of the hedge fund industry and regulation.]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha Hunter Lauren Templeton on Generating Alpha from Value Investing</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/29/alpha-hunter-lauren-templeton-on-generating-alpha-from-value-investing/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/29/alpha-hunter-lauren-templeton-on-generating-alpha-from-value-investing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AllAboutAlpha catches up with Lauren Templeton, great niece of Sir John Templeton to discuss value investing and its alpha potential.]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Day-One/Early-Stage Investors Want?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/12/what-do-the-day-oneearly-stage-investors-want/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/12/what-do-the-day-oneearly-stage-investors-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Funds of funds dominate the world of institutional investors in Day 1 or early stage (D1/ES) hedge funds, and they do so for a simple reason. That is their business model. They exist to invest in hedge funds, and their goal is to be fully invested at all times, not to have a lot of money sitting around as cash. ]]></description>
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		<title>PwC on Public Pension Managers Who ‘Do’ Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/05/pwc-on-public-pension-managers-who-%e2%80%98do%e2%80%99-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/05/pwc-on-public-pension-managers-who-%e2%80%98do%e2%80%99-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The question in 2012 is not whether hedge funds (and other alternative investment vehicles) can attract pension funds, but how they should go about it. Alternatives managers will benefit most from the heightened interest of pension funds if they address the continuing concerns of their pension fund colleagues. For example, pension fund managers are well aware that investment in exotic and illiquid products is something hedge funds do, and they know that these products can help make a quick exit impossible. ]]></description>
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		<title>Conviction Versus Clarity—A Difference With a Distinction</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/04/conviction-versus-clarity%e2%80%94a-difference-with-a-distinction/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/04/conviction-versus-clarity%e2%80%94a-difference-with-a-distinction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emerging managers want and need investors and investors reputedly are sitting on cash looking for opportunities. So why aren't the two managing to get together?]]></description>
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		<title>Alix Capital: Market Neutral Up, Fixed Income Down</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/02/29/alix-capital-market-neutral-up-fixed-income-down-2/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/02/29/alix-capital-market-neutral-up-fixed-income-down-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a survey of recipients of the UCITS Alternative Index, the UAI Industry Survey Q1 2012, Alix Capital reports that  majorities expressed satisfaction with the current level of allocation for certain strategies:  commodities, emerging markets, forex, and macro global strategies. But there was a lot of interest in increasing allocations to CTAs, equity market neutral, and volatility-based strategies. The strategy that receives the largest negative response (largest intended reduction in portfolio allocation) is fixed income.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Weather Report for 2012: Mostly Cloudy</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/02/hedge-fund-weather-report-for-2012-mostly-cloudy/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/02/hedge-fund-weather-report-for-2012-mostly-cloudy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mathema report is full of cautions, and indeed adopts a quite generally gloomy tone. The markets, it tells us, don’t lend any credence to the political fixes that have been offered for the eurozone and especially for its peripheral players. If the fixes did have credibility, then the PIIGS’ 10-year government benchmark yields would have been falling significantly of late vis-à-vis the 10 year German Bund yield. But there has been no such fall.]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Fund Distribution: Beyond UCITS</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/11/21/asian-fund-distribution-beyond-ucits/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/11/21/asian-fund-distribution-beyond-ucits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is a fairly small pond in which ripples anywhere soon shake the surface everywhere. Such an observation, like the word “globalization,” has become a cliché, but the truth behind them both becomes quite obvious in the course of a new “Viewpoint” paper by Ernst &#38; Young that examines fund distribution strategies in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commodities: Not That 1970s Show</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/27/commodities-not-that-1970s-show/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/27/commodities-not-that-1970s-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=23821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Commodities have been the big story of the past decade – almost a repeat of the inflation-burdened 1970s. If hems reflect stock market sentiment, we should be seeing an outbreak of bell-bottom trousers and platform shoes. Certainly, a new cohort of investors, institutional and retail alike, see  price rises in the elements core inflation strips out – namely food and energy – as a secular shift. Still, appearances can be deceiving. A recent study argues a long-only bet on commodities is likely to result in a return that is statistically 0: not the 1970s at all. ]]></description>
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		<title>Predictable Black Swans: Hedge Fund Formerly Known as B of A Exercises $75 Trillion Put to US Treasury, Hopes to Protect Equity Splinter</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/25/predictable-black-swans-hedge-fund-formerly-known-as-b-of-a-exercises-75-trillion-put-to-us-treasury-hopes-to-protect-equity-splinter/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/25/predictable-black-swans-hedge-fund-formerly-known-as-b-of-a-exercises-75-trillion-put-to-us-treasury-hopes-to-protect-equity-splinter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dfriedenberg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=23778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Well, maybe not $75 Trillion.  And it doesn’t call itself a hedge fund.  To be really, really fair, Bank of America couldn&#8217;t have gotten all its derivatives positions wrong, even though it’s a bank.  However, as we shall demonstrate, the phrase &#8220;equity sliver&#8221; is way too optimistic.  Understand this about a derivative hedge:  it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passivity, Activity, and Alpha in Currency Management</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/02/passivity-activity-and-alpha-in-currency-management/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/10/02/passivity-activity-and-alpha-in-currency-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=23277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Christopher Faille
Passive and active investments are often contrasted as if the distinction is self-evident. It isn’t. Even for an unambitious long-only equity indexed fund, trades have to be executed in order to maintain the desired balance, and these trades can be executed either well or poorly, in ways that help or hurt the investor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who said hedge funds don&#8217;t like chaos?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/18/who-said-hedge-funds-dont-like-chaos/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/18/who-said-hedge-funds-dont-like-chaos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=9952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A report from Moody's shows that hedge funds seem to hate volatility.  But is this always true?]]></description>
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		<title>New data shows that thanks to alternative investments, endowments did relatively well in 2009</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/04/new-data-shows-that-thanks-to-alternative-investments-endowments-did-relatively-well-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/04/new-data-shows-that-thanks-to-alternative-investments-endowments-did-relatively-well-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alpha Male</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=9195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, US university endowments took a dive last year.  But a closer look reveals that, on the whole, alternative investments were a help, not a hindrance.]]></description>
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