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Yale Style: More Exclusive Than Ever

The financial crisis left many endowment-style investors smarting—and reevaluating their model—according to two of State Street’s top researchers.

Your Contract or Mine?

A paper out of Oxford and Stanford gives the pros and cons of London vs. offshore, and standard vs. custom when it comes to contracts.  

Why Private Equity 'Collusion' Is Not Always a Danger

Morten Sorensen, a finance professor at Columbia Business School, analyzes the implications of a class-action lawsuit, alleging that Blackstone, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), and Bain Capital Partners allegedly colluded to lower the prices of takeover targets--and what it all means for the private equity industry.

PPF Broadens Its Investment Horizons

Farmland and timberland are now separate asset classes, the UK's Pension Protection Fund has asserted in its revised investment principles.

Financiers Admit: Lots of Us Are Corrupt

Nearly one in three feel pressured to violate the law or their own ethics, according to a survey, and one quarter believe it’s necessary to get ahead. 

Making His Mark Across the Atlantic

Canadian central bank head Mark Carney is taking the top spot at the Bank of England. Institutional investors see it as a step in the right direction.