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Hedge Funds Ended Year with a Strong Finish
“Hedge funds performed well in 2020,” says the alternative assets intelligence firm Preqin. With returns of 16.63% across all asset...
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Predicting a Boom Year for Hedge Funds
What can the alternative assets industry, and specifically hedge funds, look forward to this year? Don Steinbrugge has a few...
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Banking’s 2021 Outlook: Transformation and Resilience
When the pandemic forced the shutdown of businesses across much of the world, one of the sectors that adapted quickly...
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Consumers Are Paying Down Credit Card Debt
Consumers are paying off their credit card debt in amounts not seen since the Great Recession a decade ago. A WalletHub...
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Learn the Essentials of Alternative Assets for Free
Until now, learning just the basics of the heady world of alternative assets meant taking higher level college courses or...
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New Report Is Bullish on Alternatives’ Future
The future of alternatives is bright, with the financial sector growing at an annual rate of almost 10% between now...
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Bank Branches, Threatened But Surviving
Thought to be endangered by the twin threats of mobile banking and the COVID-19 pandemic, bank branches it turns out,...
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Cost Drives Equity Fund Managers to Make Changes
When managers of private equity funds changed service providers this year, cost, quality and increased portfolio complexity were typically behind...
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Alternatives Investors Plan to ‘Stay the Course’ This Year
Despite market volatility and an uncertain economic outlook, investors are committed to their alternative asset programs, declares Preqin in its half...
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Wall Street Bonuses Are Shrinking This Year
About those year-end bonuses Wall Street bankers and traders were expecting just a few months ago: If they happen at all they’re...
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Investors Are Again Favoring Hedge Funds
After seeing investors move their money out of hedge funds for nine consecutive quarters, Bloomberg says better times for the...
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Banks Seek to Improve Their Senior Level Diversity
The world’s largest banks may have slowed their overall hiring, but responding to #BlackLivesMatter and other pressures to be more...
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COVID-19 Is Teaching Accounting to Get ‘Comfortable With the Uncomfortable’
In the post-pandemic world, life at successful accounting firms will be very different from what it was just last year....
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Bank Finds Autism Spectrum Hires Make Great Technologists
In the five years since starting its Autism at Work program, global investment bank JP Morgan Chase has discovered there’s almost no...
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Companies Are Finding Virtual Recruiting to Be More Efficient
It takes a little getting used to, but companies are finding that recruiting executives remotely offers more than enough benefits...
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Investment Banks May Start Hiring in Q3
Investment banks are having a strong year. After taking belt-tightening steps last year and announcing cost reduction plans this year,...
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Bank Uses Lockdown to Train New Managers, Refresh Others
Just days before the UK announced a coronavirus lockdown, Lloyds Banking Group launched a training program for new line managers....
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Banks, Asset Managers Begin Hiring Again
Amidst a volatile stock market that's seen more ups and downs -- more ups than downs in the last few...
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PwC Is Again the ‘Most Prestigious Accounting Firm’
And the award for the “Most Prestigious Accounting Firm” goes to… wait for it… PwC. It’s the 12th straight year...
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