Alpha – real and fake
A few weeks ago, a friend asked me what I thought about a recently published study, entitled “The value of the hedge fund industry to investors, markets and the broader economy”. Written by the Centre for Hedge Fund Research of the Imperial College in London, it is published by KPMG and the Alternative Investment Management […]
Why buy Carlyle?
By Rolf on 1 May 2012
The Carlyle Group is about to go public. The founders of the second-largest private equity group wish to create a vehicle that will allow them to cash out gradually. It is perfectly understandable that they would want to sell some of their holdings. What is much less obvious is why anybody would want to buy. […]
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