COVID-19

Few knew there would be a quarantine and the idea of mask mandates was a foreign concept in the U.S., but Feb. 7 is a date firmly cemented in Corey Deutsch’s memory. He recalls reading a news article discussing a ...

Pension CIOs are not making any big asset allocation moves, according to consultants that are closely eyeing the impact COVID-19 and the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election may have on market sentiment. An NEPC survey released this week found ...

Zoom dominates most of our time working from home these days, but if you are a hedge fund IR professional this new remote marketing reality is of top concern, according to Dynamo Software/Imagineer’s annual investor relations survey. Other concerns include ...

Hedge fund managers are finding new ways to work, and in fact more than half are hiring during the uncertain and uncomfortable times all companies are now grappling with as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. A new survey of 144 ...

Hedge fund firms want their employees to know they are still being monitored even if they are working from their living room couch. Back in March, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a warning of the higher risk of ...

The great financial crisis seemed to be the source of an industry reckoning, but COVID-19 is a whole new reality that hedge fund managers are still assessing. Active managers are not faring well, according to new figures from Credit Suisse ...

I had the pleasure of a timely conversation with Preeth Gowdar, director of the Palladium Group, who has more than 17 years of experience across impact investing, transaction advisory and strategy consulting. He outlined his optimism over the broadening role ...

Sheltering-in-place has forced the alternative asset management industry online. The first wave of internal communications gave way to investor and prospect initiatives to such an extent that we’re now privy to four-hour Zoom due diligence meetings and fully virtual annual ...

It was my pleasure to sit down with another veteran investor relations professional, industry cornerstone Michelle Noyes, managing director of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). Our discussion considers current and best investor and prospect communications practices for fund managers ...

I recently had the pleasure of discussing some intriguing investor research with Kelly K. DePonte, managing director/head of research at San Francisco-based Probitas Partners, a leading independent global placement agent and provider of alternative investment solutions. DePonte is also an ...