Tag: alternative investment

The following comments are excerpted from Agecroft Partners’ Don Steinbrugge’s presentation delivered at the 69th CFA Institute Annual Conference held on May 9th, 2016...

by Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA – Managing Partner, Agecroft Partners I would like to share some thoughts regarding New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS)...

Future of Funds: How Technology and Social Media are Disrupting and Opening new Opportunities for the Fund Industry. Perhaps the biggest change that online trading...

The gender balance is something still very sensitive for the finance industry. This series of articles on women in alternatives have examined the findings of...

In part three of this series we turn our attention to the Millennials. As explained in part one, the Millennial Generation was born from...

YES BANK aims to list up to $500m Green Bond on London Stock Exchange in 2016 YES BANK to potentially raise equity capital through global...

As we saw in part 1 of this series on the future of wealth in the USA, Generation X was born between 1965 and...

In the first part of this three part series examining the KPMG women in the alternative investment industry we explored the way that the...

The alternatives industry is undergoing considerable change. Fund managers have had to focus on improving the efficiency of their operations, increasing transparency and making...

HedgeThink and Intelligenthq.com are proud to present an inspiring and profound video interview with Paolo Sironi - a thought leader, author, academic, technologist, IBMer...

It is believed by consultancy PWC that asset management will face a Brave New World in 2020. There have been some game changers...

Building a content rich fund website that performs is a challenge, but it can be done through thinking about what is needed fully, and...

People are frustrated with the financial services industry. There is a lack of trust that has grown from the economic recession and has been...

For asset management firms, by 2020 handling tax risk will be a way that companies differentiate themselves from one another and are able to...

Wealth. So much power in this world, so much underlying factors and I would say so much emotions. What does ‘wealth’ hide from us nowadays?...

One of the biggest discussion points in the wealth management industry at the moment is what the impact will be of robo advisors on...

Wealth management is an industry that is undergoing tremendous change, and there are a variety of influences that are driving this. According to Ed...

Climate Change implications for various Assets and Industries In light of ongoing changes towards the policies and regulations on climate change, every investor should be...

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is an important exchange to trade on with good reason. Hong Kong has transformed tremendously over the decades, and...

This is the last part of the series on Financial regulation and the Hedge Fund Industry which gives an overview of the main regulatory bodies...

The Hedge Fund industry is often perceived as unregulated. It is actually not the case. In fact, since the onset of the financial crisis,...

HedgeThink proudly presents the 2nd part of an epic interview with  Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA Managing Partner, Agecroft Partners. In this second part Mr. Steinbrugge elaborates...

This article has been written with the help of several sources including Wikipedia, the Financial Times, the Handbook of Hedge Funds by Francois-Serge Lhabitant,...

For the past few years Bitcoin has been transforming money online. Bitcoin has been very controversial, not least because it is unregulated, and its...

Within minutes after the opening bell on Black Monday, August 24, the Dow plummeted 1,089 points, surpassing even the flash crash of 2010. Dramatic...