Back in October, Meketa Investment Group welcomed 136 assets managers to meet with investors representing $318 billion in assets to attend the consulting firm’s first virtual emerging and diverse manager research days
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As the performance figures roll in over the last two weeks of the year, the clear winner among hedge fund strategies are equity-oriented strategies. Asian equity managers have stolen the show though with numerous 40%-plus year-to-date returns
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By Susan Barreto, Editor of Alternatives Watch 2020 has been an unprecedented year for all of us, and as we get ready to turn the calendar page into 2021, we are surveying fund law professionals on what trends they have seen in the alternative investment industry have witnessed. Alternatives Watch is teaming up with fund
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Raising capital remotely has been a breeze for a number of top-tier private equity, credit and real estate firms that closed funds last month totaling more than $58 billion across 19 distinct investment offerings
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Making up nearly 60% of the $41.9 billion Harvard University endowment, hedge funds made a strong contribution to the 7.3% return of the overall portfolio. The returns outshine 2019’s investment performance of 6.5%. Harvard Management Company (HMC) manages the largest U.S. university endowment and has continued to grow its hedge fund allocation which now makes up the largest slice of the portfolio pie at 36.4%. Last year hedge funds made up 33% of the portfolio or growth of roughly $1.2 billion.
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