Going Private Leads to Bigger Returns, Study Finds (FT)

Asset Owner See Proactive Way as Response to Private Market (PI)

Primer Fibra Inmobiliario De América Latina (El Economista)

Morgan Creek's Bearish Outlook on the Public Markets (CNBC)

UBS’s Big Data Lab Is No Longer Just for its Analysts (II)

Deals for PE Owned Businesses Fall Sharply (FT)

Bridgewater Planning To Give Employees More Control Over Firm Decisions (R)

Chile Podría Pasar A Categoría De Mercados Desarrollados (BB)

China Becoming More Accepting of Bitcoin (Forbes)

China's Major Tech Firms Will Dominate SE Asia's Emerging Markets (F)

Can Private Equity Put Record Capital Flows To Work? (F)

Norway's Pension Fund Earns Record $130 Billion in 2017 (CIO)

Bitcoin plunges after upgrade is called off(CNBC)

Who Is The Sucker When Robot Trades Against Robot? (HFs)

China Wealth Fund's Overseas Assets Return 6.22% (Bloomberg)

Lufthansa Moves from Pension Plan to DC Plan for Pilots (CIO)

Passive Investing Poses Problems for EM Debt Markets (RG)

Asia's Growing Middle Class Presents Sufficient Scope for PE (DS)

Investors Shifting from HF's to Other Alts (Hedgeweek)

Apple May Participate in $100 billion SoftBank Fund (TC)

JPM: Currency HF's Gained Most From Trump Trade (ValueWalk)

Once Terrified, HF Managers Warm To Trump (Economic Times)

Dalio: Trump's Craziness Factor Maybe Lower Than Feared (Forbes)

Blackstone profit beats forecasts on real estate, energy (Reuters)

Vela lança dois fundos de energia com capital proprietário

Blackstone's Manhattan Properties (Scribble Maps)

AFP Chilenas Dividirán Ex Fondo Beagle En Cuatro Gestoras (DF)

Conversions of Office Buildings Are Pushing Prices Higher (NREI)

Korea's NPS Approves Maiden Investment in HFs (Pinebase)

CalPERS a Canary in the Coalmine? (HedgeFund Intelligence)

SEC Sanctions 19 Hedge Fund Advisers, PE Firms (HedgeCo.Net)

Private Equity Firm's most ridiculous fees (Fortune)

SEC Finds Fee, Expense Violations at PE Firms (WSJ)

Santander Follows Money with HF Strategy Switch (Financial News)

RailPen, BT Pension Join HF Pullback (Financial News)

Highbridge Owner JPMorgan Cuts Hedge Funds (FINalternatives)

CalPERS Tweaks Private Equity Program Again (Pensions & Investments)

Buffet's Million Dollar Hedge Fund Bet (Yahoo Finance)

Slamming a Door on Hedge Funds (NYTimes.com)

Investing: Finding Faults With Alts (USA Today)

Swedroe: Nails In The Hedge Fund Coffin (ETF)

Investor Satisfaction with HF Falls (FINalternatives)

Ditching HF Fee And Transparency Concerns (Pensions Expert)

Louisiana Firefighters Eliminate HF Asset Allocation (IMMP)

Emanuel Pleitez, Why L.A. Fire and Police Dropped HFs (P&I)

The Hedge Fund Mirage by Simon Lack (Amazon.com)

A Modest Proposal to SEC: Ban "Alternatives" (Bloomberg)

Hedge Fund Returns Won't Save Public Pensions (Fortune)

Public Pensions Cannot Stop Chasing Performance (Businessweek)

Reality of Private Equity Returns (Lerner - HBS)

The Hare Gets Rich. Back the Tortoise (FT Alphaville)

Step One in Zombie Prevention: Pants On (FT Alphaville)

Risks of Alternative Investments - A Case Study (momentuminv)

When Exotic Investments Are Too Good to be True (Fortune)