A recent Kauffman Foundation Study draws daunting conclusions regarding their 20 year experience in the venture capital sector. AARM Founder, Gitanjali Swamy, believes Good Venture exists and shares a road map to help investors find attractive pockets of investment opportunities in venture. What do you think about the future of venture capital in the United States?

Charles Skorina speaks with Curtis Loftis, Treasurer of South Carolina about investment fees.

Institutions aren’t to be rushed into committing to a hedge fund. The process can take more than a year. Preqin asked institutions: once a fund has caught their attention, specifically once they have first seen a fund proposal, how much time typically passes before they actually make an investment, if they do?

The return of assets to the realm of hedge funds comes with enhanced scrutiny. As Todd Groome, chairman of AIMA, says: “Following 2008, a much greater investor focus on liquidity, portfolio transparency, control and fund governance was clearly evident.” In common with legislative/regulatory changes, this requires transformation.

In a presentation about Malaysian derivatives trading, the issue of capital controls, and memories of the late 1990s, briefly came to the fore. Assume that a foreign investor considers Malaysia a promising place to invest. Will this investor be confident that if he does so he’ll be in a position to repatriate at his own choosing?

Prof. Michael Spence helps us to understand why information and speed matter in the global economy and gives his views on the state of the world now, and in the future.

Peter Urbani looks at the performance of emerging managers vs. established managers.

As a recent paper from four scholars at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, observes, the extra flexibility risk managers gain from using credit derivatives comes with drawbacks. Perhaps the most obvious of drawbacks is that it creates counter-party risk. Still, the authors: Luis Otero González, Luis Ignacio Rodriguez Gil, Sara Cantorna Agra, and Pablo Durán Santomil, have written “Banking Risk and Credit Derivatives,” in order to take an empirical look at the balance of pros...

IOSCO, the international policy body for securities regulators, has this month published its own final report on international standards for the regulation of derivatives market intermediaries. This continues a course followed by international bodies ever since the G20 summit: the drift away from the grand idea of treating all derivatives in a standardized way, toward acceptance of the unharnessed character of the OTC world, though for all that a renewed insistence on regulating the...

K. Robert "Bobby" Turner's firms have invested in excess of US$19 billion into urban communities (with partners including Magic Johnson and Andre Agassi), find out why….