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Hedge Funds / Public
- ESG Strategies Lengthen Hedge Fund Holding Periods (FT)
- Hedge Fund Assets Hit Record High Despite Quarterly Outflows (PI)
- Equity & Quant Hedge Funds Hit Hardest by Stock Market Rout (BB)
- Highfields is Latest High-Profile Hedge Fund to Shut Down (II)
- Advisors Still Keen on High-Fee Hedge Funds (II)
- Hedge Fund Activism Has No Meaningful Long-Term Impact (II)
- Are These the Best Hedge Fund Strategies? (II)
- Jurors Take Company’s Side in Lawsuit Against Hedge Funds (II)
Private Equity / Venture
- PE Avoids the Regulatory Limelight (PE)
- PE Deals Fail to Keep Up Pre-Crisis Success (FT)
- Record Sums of Money Flood Into Private Capital (B)
- Mega Funds Lead Private Capital Fundraising (II)
- Private Equity Using Data Scientists To Win Deals (BI)
- PE Assets Predicted to Outgrow Hedge Funds by 2023 (FN)
- S&P Listed PE Index Has Undergone a Major Breakdown (TCharts)
- Latest Trends In VC/PE With Q3 2018 Updates (VW)
Real Assets
- Capital Pouring Into Value-Add Multifamily Deals (GS)
- Next Big Trend for Real Estate Investors (PW)
- Institutional Investors Will Invest More to Real Estate in 2019 (NREI)
- Investment in Infrastructure Is Booming (PEN)
- Investors Should Consider Putting Their Money in CRE Debt (NREI)
- Real Assets Recommended for Public Pension Plans (PS)
- Housing Tipping Back To a Buyer's Market (CNBC)
- Uranium Sector Eyed for Revival with Asian Reactor Build (R)
Hedge Funds / Public
- ESG Strategies Lengthen Hedge Fund Holding Periods (FT)
- Hedge Fund Assets Hit Record High Despite Quarterly Outflows (PI)
- Equity & Quant Hedge Funds Hit Hardest by Stock Market Rout (BB)
- Highfields is Latest High-Profile Hedge Fund to Shut Down (II)
- Advisors Still Keen on High-Fee Hedge Funds (II)
- Hedge Fund Activism Has No Meaningful Long-Term Impact (II)
- Are These the Best Hedge Fund Strategies? (II)
- Jurors Take Company’s Side in Lawsuit Against Hedge Funds (II)
Private Equity / Venture
- PE Avoids the Regulatory Limelight (PE)
- PE Deals Fail to Keep Up Pre-Crisis Success (FT)
- Record Sums of Money Flood Into Private Capital (B)
- Mega Funds Lead Private Capital Fundraising (II)
- Private Equity Using Data Scientists To Win Deals (BI)
- PE Assets Predicted to Outgrow Hedge Funds by 2023 (FN)
- S&P Listed PE Index Has Undergone a Major Breakdown (TCharts)
- Latest Trends In VC/PE With Q3 2018 Updates (VW)
Real Assets
- Capital Pouring Into Value-Add Multifamily Deals (GS)
- Next Big Trend for Real Estate Investors (PW)
- Institutional Investors Will Invest More to Real Estate in 2019 (NREI)
- Investment in Infrastructure Is Booming (PEN)
- Investors Should Consider Putting Their Money in CRE Debt (NREI)
- Real Assets Recommended for Public Pension Plans (PS)
- Housing Tipping Back To a Buyer's Market (CNBC)
- Uranium Sector Eyed for Revival with Asian Reactor Build (R)
Managers(GPs)
- Bridgewater Says Investors Should Look to Asia (BB)
- Blackstone Reports Record $457 Billion in AUM (PI)
- PIMCO Revs Up PF Playbook to Profit in Next Recession (BB)
- Laffont Sees Tough 2019 as Tech Stocks Faced `Brutal' October (BB)
- Berkshire Hathaway Invests Millions in Fintech (WSJ)
- David Swensen Invests Into Two Crypto Silicon Valley Funds (CNBC)
- Howard Marks on Market Cycles and Why 2018 Is Like 2006 (AXIOS)
- Doubleline CEO Jeffrey Gundlach Offers His Best Investing Advice (F)
Allocators(LPs)
- Harvard & MIT Have Invested in Cryptocurrency Funds (CCN)
- Carlyle to Raise Another $100 B Amid Ultralow Interest Rates (WSJ)
- The World’s Largest Allocator, GPFG Decided to Abandon Oil (II)
- SF Pension System Approves Divestment of Fossil Fuel (CIO)
- GPIF Can Use AI to Determine Manager Selection (CIO)
- LPs Seek Help Ensuring They Aren’t Overpaying for PE (Pehub)
- OCERS Pursues $100M in PE Commitments to Close 2018 (Pehub)
- Can Japanese LPs Become Asia's Next Big Investors? (PERE)
Blockchain
- Harvard & MIT Have Invested in Cryptocurrency Funds (CCN)
- U.S. Pensions, Endowments Take No Action for AI and Blockchain (II)
- What If the SEC Approves an ETF for Bitcoin? (CDIN)
- David Swensen, Makes First Big Bets on Crypo (CNBC)
- Seoul to Create 100B Won Blockchain Fund (ZDNet)
- Morgan Creek Launches Crypto Index Fund (II)
- Crypto Trading Revenue May Double, Bernstein Says (BB)
- Mystery Behind Tether, the Crypto World's Digital Dollar (WSJ)
Greed / Optimism
- Africa Special: The Tailwinds behind Kenya's PE Growth (PEI)
- Foundations Reap Biggest Retuns Since 2013 (II)
- Institutional Investors Have High Hopes for HFs in 2019 (CIO)
- PE Investment Is Proof of Positive Southern Africa (FT)
- PE Accelerates ‘Buy-and-Build’ Strategy (FT)
- As PEs Mature, the Way They Buy and Sell is Changing (E)
- Traders Chase 76% Returns Shorting Europe (B)
- Euro Funds Aiming for Risky 12-15% Returns (PDI)
Fear / Pessimism
- Stock Markets Face Historic Lack of Dry Powder (II)
- Africa Special: Currency Risk is the Biggest Concern for LPs (PEI)
- High Fees Remain Biggest Barrier to Private Markets (PEI)
- Next Crisis Will Feature Flash Crashes and Social Unrest (CNBC)
- How Escalating US-China Tensions are Reshaping PE (PEI)
- Greenlight Capital's Funds are Down 18.3% This Year (WSJ)
- Quant HFs Lose Their Allure as Performance Sags (FT)
- Insurance Firms Pull Billions from HFs (FN)
Occupy: Alts
- Alternative Investing Trends and Analysis (AIIA)
- Quantifying High Performance Dispersion Risk in Alternatives (AAA)
- Campbell Reboots Long-Running Multistrategy Fund (II)
- 3 Things to Know about Japan Post Bank's $78B Alt Target (PEI)
- J. Tomilson Hill is New CEO of Blackstone Alt. Asset Management (PI)
- Alt. Investment Industry-U.S. Economy Run, Fed Hike in 2018 (O)
- HF Rich List Shows Broken Fee Model (II)
- Private Equity Examines its Distressed Navel (BB)
Buffett / Berkshire
- Berkshire Hathaway Invests Millions in Fintech (WSJ)
- AI Predicts Berkshire Hathaway Holdings at Risk From HF (FN)
- 10 Reasons Buffett is a Better Investor Than You (USNews)
- Buffett Donates $3.4B of Berkshire Stock to Charities (WSJ)
- Warren Buffett's Advice On How To Raise Well-Adjusted Heirs (WA)
- The Price For Lunch With Warren Buffett: $3,300,100 (R)
- Buffett Buys a Further 75 Million Apple Shares, Sells Out of IBM (B)
- Berkshire 2018 AGM: Buffett's Advice on Investing (VW)
China
- Iron Ore As Demand For Construction Steel Soars In China (F)
- China's Bytedance Becomes World's Largest Internet Startup (F)
- Steve Mnuchin Says China’s Manipulating Its Currency (DB)
- Inventis: In Search of China’s ‘Largest’ PE Firm (PEI)
- China's $1.9T Private Funds Industry Braces for Pain (BB)
- China's New Rules Spark Private Equity Collapse (OZY)
- China PE Fundraising Dips in H1 2018 (PEI)
- Jonathan Gray On China: There Are Big Issues At Stake (CNBC)
Opinions / Academia
- The Secret Influence of America’s 100 Richest (TG)
- The Problem With Co-Investing (PEI)
- Bring Harvard and Yale Investing to the People (B)
- The New Threat Facing Developed Markets Investments (II)
- The Fed’s Capital Mistake (WSJ)
- HF Managers With High Testosterone Underperform (CNBC)
- When Doing Nothing Is the Best Thing To Do (II)
- Why Gabelli Isn’t Sweating the Passive Trend (II)
Publications & Presentations
- Howard Marks: Investing Without People (OTC)
- Hedge Funds' Strategic Conference Approach (SSRN)
- BlackRock Eyes Coders, Not Investors (LinkedIn)
- a16z Monthly Newletter - May 2018 - The Long Game (a16z)
- Blockchain's New Found Applications In The Energy Sector (EC)
- Greenlight Capital Q1 2018
- Third Point First Quarter Investor Letter (TP)
- DoubleLine April 2018 Commentary (DL)
Emerging Managers / Emerging Companies
- A Difficult Pitch, but Europe Needs US Investors (PDI)
- Hedge Funds Lose Appetite for FANGs (B)
- SEC Wants to Open Public to Private Deals (WSJ)
- At Hedge Funds, Where Are the Women? (WSJ)
- SoftBank Is Starting to Look Like a PE Firm (BB)
- Andreessen Horowitz Scraps Rule for Partnership (RC)
- Opportunities for Women in Crypto (F)
- Cambridge Co SPG Committed to Investing in Female Mangers (F)
Fees and Terms
- Quant Funds Lose Their Shine as Strategies Falter (FT)
- SEC Looks to Rewrite Rules for Brokers (WSJ)
- Carry and Hurdles in Three Charts (PEI)
- The Hedge Fund Fee Conundrum (II)
- More HFs to Renegotiate Fees with UTIMCO (PI)
- PE Fee Model Under Scrutiny Following Nordic PE Entry Snub (FT)
- Higher UST Yields Hit Hedge Fund Fees (VW）
- Fees Charged by Private Debt Funds at a 10-Year Low (II)
Emerging Markets
- Kai-Fu Lee : U.S. Tech Companies Aren’t Ready for Chinese AI (BB)
- U.S. Pensions, Endowments Take No Action for AI and Blockchain (II)
- Public Funds Split on India Allocation (SWFI)
- Emerging Markets Send Pension Assets Surging (II)
- Argentina Hikes Highest Rate Amid Turkey Contagion (BB)
- As Trade Wars Heat Up, So Do Emerging Markets (II)
- Private Debt Investors Turn to Asia (II)
- South African HF Industry Sees First AUM Decline Since 2011 (O)
Direct / Co-Investment
- Infrastructure Funds Are Hauling in Record Amounts of Cash (B)
- Morgan Stanley Raises $516M fo HF Co-Investments (BB)
- Ontario Teachers' Initial Investment Pays Off (PI)
- PE Investors: Co-Investments Outperform Funds (VW)
- LPs Attracted to Better Returns from Co-Investments (CMN)
- Family Offices Directing Own PE Investments (TD)
- CalPERS to Consider Internal Activism (PI)
- Public Pension Funds' Shareholder-Proposal Activism (PM)
Potpourri
- Soros Spins Out Private Equity Team, Pledging Up to $2B (BB)
- Secondaries Special: Experiments in Liquidity (PEI)
- Allure of Specialty Finance Strategies Gets Stronger (PDI)
- Blackstone Impressed By KKR's Gain in C-corp Conversion (PEI)
- Biggest Banks Pass Fed's Stress Test (NYT)
- Wall Street Uses Superforecasting to Predict Market Behavior (WSJ)
- Under-Funded Colorado Retirement System Gets New Money (CIO)
- SocGen To Pay $1.3B Over FCPA, Libor-Rigging Charges (Law360)