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By William (Bill) J. Kelly, CAIA, CEO of the CAIA Association.
 

By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA – Founder and CEO, Agecroft Partners.

By Joachim Klement, Head of Strategy, Accounting, and Sustainability at Liberum Capital.

By David Stevenson, a London-based financial writer for PitchBook News, covering private equity.

When KKR closed its sixth European buyout vehicle on $8 billion, it did so with around $1 billion of its own capital contributing to the fund corpus. The New York-based firm is one of many GPs pumping more of their own money into their funds.

By Linus Nilsson, founder of NilssonHedge, a hedge fund database.

Short Term Trading is one of the elusive trading strategies within Managed Futures. Often managers have been able to deliver uncorrelated historical returns. Once the manager grows above a certain limit or becomes known to the investment community, the future results tend to be underwhelming as capacity constraints and alpha decay start to bite.

By Christian H. Mueller-Glissmann, Global Investment Research, at Goldman Sachs.

At a time when stocks are sliding, it can be hard (and painful) to remember that equities have the best chance of getting investors an attractive return over the longer term. Portfolios have gotten riskier since the beginning of the year, as bonds and stocks have fallen together. But there are ways investors can insulate portfolios until the turbulence subsides, according to Goldman Sachs Research.

By Steven Novakovic is the Managing Director, CAIA Curriculum for CAIA Association. 

By Shawn Gibson CIO, Portfolio Manager & co-Founder of Liquid Strategies, LLC.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Behavioral finance has a significant impact on both the short-term and long-term pricing of options

• The flexibility to use options in creative ways has helped to consistently drive options volume higher as more market participants get more comfortable with their use

By William (Bill) J. Kelly, CAIA, CEO of the CAIA Association.

By Christoph Junge, CAIA, Head of Alternative Investments at Velliv Pension & Livsforsikring A/S; Denmark’s third-largest commercial pension company.

By Larry Kim, Managing Director, Portfolio Consultant, Simplify ETFs.

INTRODUCTION
With decades of both passive and active fund performance now in the rearview mirror, the results are unequivocal: active management within fixed income is incredibly compelling, while active management in equities has failed to deliver.