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	<title>AllAboutAlpha: Hedge Fund Trends &#38; Alternative Investment Analysis &#187; hedge funds</title>
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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>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<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>
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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>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Business Expenses: Like Shopping for Shirts</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/17/hedge-fund-business-expenses-like-shopping-for-shirts/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/17/hedge-fund-business-expenses-like-shopping-for-shirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:08 +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>
		<category><![CDATA[Citi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The smallest of the four groups of hedge fund firms, those with AUM under $250 million, control only 6.3 percent of the industry's assets, yet pay roughly 19 percent of the aggregate business expenses. It's tough to be small, better to be medium sized, still better to be large, though it isn't necessarily best to be extra large.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Investing in, Not Gambling Within, the Casino</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/11/20/investing-in-not-gambling-within-the-casino/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/11/20/investing-in-not-gambling-within-the-casino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ineichen, the author of AIMA's updated roadmap to hedge funds, addresses some of the hot-button issues of investor/management interaction, including fees, leverage, and style drift. Although investors are naturally inclined to see style drift as a bad thing, they should be cautious about demanding that managers stay within a tightly-defined core area of expertise.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hedge Funds &amp; the Global Economic Crisis: Willing Culprits or Easy Scapegoats?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/10/11/hedge-funds-the-global-economic-crisis-willing-culprits-or-easy-scapegoats/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/10/11/hedge-funds-the-global-economic-crisis-willing-culprits-or-easy-scapegoats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Coverage of Hedge Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“It was quite convenient to blame the Hedge Funds. They were an easy target, in that they were super-rich, a lot of them were American, and they were presented as bad people. They were blamed for what was happening to our banking system, which in reality was complete rubbish.”--Kate Walsh, Sunday Times, 2010.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/10/11/hedge-funds-the-global-economic-crisis-willing-culprits-or-easy-scapegoats/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Canada’s Hedge Funds Are Worthy of the Name</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/09/03/canada%e2%80%99s-hedge-funds-are-worthy-of-the-name/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/09/03/canada%e2%80%99s-hedge-funds-are-worthy-of-the-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutual funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amitesh Kapoor's research into Canadian hedge funds and mutual funds shows that the hedgers really do have a performance edge.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/09/03/canada%e2%80%99s-hedge-funds-are-worthy-of-the-name/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Second Circuit: Jury Instructions and Insider Trading</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/27/the-second-circuit-jury-instructions-and-insider-trading/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/27/the-second-circuit-jury-instructions-and-insider-trading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insider trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paragon Fund]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one academic study has put it, the mosaic defense is that “insider trading violations should not result when a perceptive analyst reaches a conclusion about a corporate action or event through an analysis of public information and items of nonmaterial nonpublic information [as a result of] good analytical skills.”
In this case, it availed naught. Contorinis was found guilty, in October 2010, of seven counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. He was sentenced to six years in prison and the forfeiture of $12.65 million.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/27/the-second-circuit-jury-instructions-and-insider-trading/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alpha Hunter Jeff Joseph on Taking Funds to Market</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/26/alpha-hunter-jeff-joseph-on-taking-funds-to-market/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/26/alpha-hunter-jeff-joseph-on-taking-funds-to-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge fund marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JOBS Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=27021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alpha Hunter Jeff Joseph talks with AllAboutAlpha about the changes in the regulatory landscape and what this means for hedge fund marketing.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/26/alpha-hunter-jeff-joseph-on-taking-funds-to-market/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Cranky Camel: Neither Oasis nor Mirage</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/07/the-cranky-camel-neither-oasis-nor-mirage/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/08/07/the-cranky-camel-neither-oasis-nor-mirage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon Lack's critique of the whole hedge fund industry wasn't that of an 'Occupier.' He had the background, and the publisher, to make his attack credible. But was it accurate?  The research committee of the AIMA begs to differ. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PwC]]></category>

		<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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		<slash:comments>0</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>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funds of funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investing]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asian hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFTC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[high-frequency trading]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEC]]></category>

		<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>PwC: Open Books Will Rebuild Trust for Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/26/pwc-open-books-will-rebuild-trust-for-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/26/pwc-open-books-will-rebuild-trust-for-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The return of assets to the realm of hedge funds comes with enhanced scrutiny. As Todd Groome, chairman of AIMA, says: “Following 2008, a much greater investor focus on liquidity, portfolio transparency, control and fund governance was clearly evident.” In common with legislative/regulatory changes, this requires transformation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Emerging Managers Have Delivered Twice the Returns of Established Managers</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/21/emerging-managers-have-delivered-twice-the-returns-of-established-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/21/emerging-managers-have-delivered-twice-the-returns-of-established-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging managers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Urbani looks at the performance of emerging managers vs. established managers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/21/emerging-managers-have-delivered-twice-the-returns-of-established-managers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>It isn&#8217;t All About Alpha</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/10/it-isnt-all-about-alpha/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/10/it-isnt-all-about-alpha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seeking alpha]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rene Levesque, Mountjoy Capital, discussing alpha and the traders who generate it.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venture capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity markets]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/07/alpha-hunters-looking-at-alternative-investments-from-the-inside-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hot News Draws Crowds: Street of Walls</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/04/hot-news-draws-crowds-street-of-walls/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/06/04/hot-news-draws-crowds-street-of-walls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trading ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The breakdown shows (unsurprisingly) that the most crowded positions are also generally those that have been making headlines of late. Google, for example, is a crowded position, and by February of this year those ubiquitous "people familiar with the matter" were telling reporters that the necessary authorities on both sides of the Atlantic were going to approve of GOOG's acquisition of Motorola Mobility.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<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>It Takes A Village to Raise A Hedge Fund</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/28/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-hedge-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/28/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-hedge-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[start-ups]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=26047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds are a hard way to make an "easy living" at any time, but the current environment is tougher than most. What does it take to get up and running in today's climate?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/28/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-hedge-fund/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don’t Fear Hedge Funds or Directional Strategies</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/23/don%e2%80%99t-fear-hedge-funds-or-directional-strategies/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/23/don%e2%80%99t-fear-hedge-funds-or-directional-strategies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[directional bets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPMG]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds as a class have performed quite well since 1994. As one might expect, distinct hedge fund strategies yield distinct results. Long/short equity strategies (or “equity hedge” strategies as KPMG calls them) have done best. Generally speaking, hedge funds willing to make directional bets have outperformed those that stick to relative-value plays.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alpha Hunters: A Conversation with Peter Stein</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/13/alpha-hunters-a-conversation-with-peter-stein/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/05/13/alpha-hunters-a-conversation-with-peter-stein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Skorina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endowment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foundations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funds of funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAAMCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Stein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women-owned hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New columnist Charles Skorina interviews Peter Stein, veteran alternative investments professional.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Brand of Hedge Funds</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/04/26/the-brand-of-hedge-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/04/26/the-brand-of-hedge-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Operations and Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CounselWorks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highbridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JP Morgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Resnick]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["This industry will perhaps never really shake off the aura of secrecy and inevitable rumor mill, but investors and risk managers need to really start to judge funds on the metric against which the funds judge themselves: performance."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpha generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
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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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund industry trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>U.S. Rejoins the Globe, Say Consultants</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/28/u-s-rejoins-the-globe-say-consultants/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/28/u-s-rejoins-the-globe-say-consultants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endowments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foundations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funds of funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pension funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consultants expect that managers' need to generate steady income in a low interest rate environment will drive a lot of portfolio turnover in 2012, inclusive of the movement of alternatives into core positions within portfolios, and it will drive one-time U.S. focused investors and managers to look abroad. Meanwhile, pensions are retreating toward passive mandates. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Examiner Reports on an Ongoing Family Saga</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/19/examiner-reports-on-an-ongoing-family-saga/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/19/examiner-reports-on-an-ongoing-family-saga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distressed debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dynegy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The parent corporation, Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN) did not file for bankruptcy. As of August 31 of last year, Dynegy's only asset was the equity in Dynegy Holdings, which in turn owned various operating subsidiaries. But on September 1, Dynegy Holdings transferred its coal power facilities to Dynegy. Two months later Dynegy Holdings and related entities filed.]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophism Versus Darwinism: Dodd-Frank as Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/14/catastrophism-versus-darwinism-dodd-frank-as-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/03/14/catastrophism-versus-darwinism-dodd-frank-as-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant Thornton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[registered investment advisors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Grant Thornton paper maintains that the asset management industry achieved "performance and operational efficiencies" during 2011, and this sounds like the sort of marginal adaptation that play a large part in Charles Darwins' writings, to which GT's Winstoin Wilson alluded. But ... the report also treats the regulatory environment as a meteor, capable of wiping out even the best-adapted of pre-collision dinosaurs. So "the Darwinian process" is an odd label for what it describes. ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCITS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global macro]]></category>
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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>The Shifting Hedge Fund Landscape: Operations and Due Diligence</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/02/28/the-shifting-hedge-fund-landscape-operations-and-due-diligence/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/02/28/the-shifting-hedge-fund-landscape-operations-and-due-diligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund performance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=25263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One crucial takeaway from SEI's latest is that "the quality of operations is a major consideration in institutions' screening and evaluation of hedge funds." Eighty percent of respondents agreed with the observation that "operational strength is a hallmark of an institutional-quality hedge fund." One quarter of those say they agree "strongly." Only three percent disagree.]]></description>
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		<title>Do Hedge Funds Work?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/26/do-hedge-funds-work/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/26/do-hedge-funds-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vshah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dispersion risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Lack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tail risk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["...If all the money that's ever been invested in hedge funds had been put in treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as good..." This is the astonishing finding of Simon Lack in his book "The Hedge Fund Mirage".]]></description>
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		<title>SEI: Hedge Funds May Draw the Lightning on Themselves</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/24/sei-hedge-funds-may-draw-the-lightning-on-themselves/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/24/sei-hedge-funds-may-draw-the-lightning-on-themselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absolute return]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenwich Associates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The SEI asked institutional investors in hedge funds what was the number one reason for their inclusion of such funds in their portfolio. The most popular single choice was "absolute return." On the other hand, if you combine the numbers of the distinct answers that involve limiting the downside, then the percentage of respondents who gave some risk-management focused answer is 56 percent. As SEI says, this is "a marked cultural shift from the early days of hedge funds, when many investors focused on their potential to produce outsided returns." ]]></description>
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		<title>Merlin on Investor Due Diligence: Counting By Threes</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/17/merlin-on-investor-due-diligence-counting-by-threes/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/17/merlin-on-investor-due-diligence-counting-by-threes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-net-worth investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[due diligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merlin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, an investor (according to a new white paper on due diligence from Merlin Securities) must decide what kind of strategy it is to which he wants exposure, and generate a list of managers who practice that strategy. Thereafter he can focus on each firm on that list looking at each of the three (qualitative) components of management, and subjecting his impressions to a variety of (quantitative) tests. Tripartite divisions seem to come into play a lot.  
 ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What Was That You Said&#8230;? Retail?&#8217; Just Call it ‘Convergence’</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/12/04/what-was-that-you-said-retail-just-call-it-%e2%80%98convergence%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/12/04/what-was-that-you-said-retail-just-call-it-%e2%80%98convergence%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cfaille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Mutual Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutual funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retailization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCITs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from SEI shows If an alternative strategy can be offered in a mutual fund structure it has a much broader market opportunity than if not. Hedge fund managers want the mutual fund market just as mutual fund managers want to use the broader hedge fund range of strategies.]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Liquidity</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/11/28/the-trouble-with-liquidity/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/11/28/the-trouble-with-liquidity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bswarup</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illiquidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liquid strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liquidity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=24248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The true opportunities now lie in taking illiquidity. The panic – for there is no other word to describe this behaviour – today presents those who can afford to have a longer-term investment horizon with a unique time arbitrage.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernsy & Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCITs]]></category>

		<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>What Hedge Fund Investors Want, Hedge Fund Investors Get</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/11/06/what-hedge-fund-investors-want-hedge-fund-investors-get/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/11/06/what-hedge-fund-investors-want-hedge-fund-investors-get/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Industry Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Operations and Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[active management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global macro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liquidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long/short equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=23935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of sketchy performance from some top managers, institutional investors remain committed to hedge funds and a large number are shopping for new relationships in 2012.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpha Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Operations and Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance, Analytics & Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currency investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge fund]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[performance benchmarks]]></category>

		<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>Hedge Fund Side Pocket Secondary Markets: Heading South, or Going Their Own Way?</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/09/28/hedge-fund-side-pocket-secondary-markets-heading-south-or-going-their-own-way/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2011/09/28/hedge-fund-side-pocket-secondary-markets-heading-south-or-going-their-own-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secondary Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Side pocket]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=23261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are fears that the summer selloff could paralyze or weaken the secondary market for hedge funds. Yet deeper research reveals that some sought after funds may still command premiums – the story is very much fund-specific.]]></description>
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		<title>Despite regulators&#8217; concerns about placement agents, third-party marketing industry alive and well</title>
		<link>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/17/despite-regulators-concerns-about-placement-agents-third-party-marketing-industry-alive-and-well/</link>
		<comments>http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2010/02/17/despite-regulators-concerns-about-placement-agents-third-party-marketing-industry-alive-and-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AAA Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutional Investing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[3PM]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/?p=9846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new survey points to new trends in the third party marketing space, most notably the re-emergence of third-party marketers.]]></description>
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