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         <title>A SQUARE 31 Aug 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Shipping update - Mercer sees investment opportunities created by capital scarcity
- Empirical research: Forecasting shipping freight rates...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 25 Aug 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Catastrophe bonds GC Securities research shows surging CAT bond activity in first half of 2010...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 18 Aug 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Unlisted infrastructure vehicles - Fundraising trends and investor confidence
- Long-term performance of infrastructure vehicles...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 04 Aug 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>A financial product: Alternative energy and oil Research by Kevin L. Meyer, University of Lausanne shows how to invest in alternative energy depending on variations in the price of oil...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 26 Jul 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>SRI fund selection EDHEC-Risk Institute&amp;amp;#39;s Philippe Aurain provides a brief guide for investors...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 15 Jul 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>How will HNWI demand for luxury collectibles change in 2010? - Capgemini / Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report 2010
- Fund performance data in the collectibles space...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 28 Jun 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Investing in photography - Market update
- Fund profile: MERIT Art Photography Fund...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 14 Jun 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Investing in the life settlements market - Market outlook
- Portfolio diversification characteristics
- Fund performances...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE 01 Jun 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Why timber can be a favorable asset class for institutional investors</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 00:06:40 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Examining the advantages of timberland as an asset class ...</description>
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         <title>The portfolio diversification benefits of fine wine in economic downturns</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Market update, empirical research and recent investment fund performances ...</description>
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         <title>The catastrophe market &#8211; A Q&amp;A with Nebula Capital Management&#39;s Aleem Mawji</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Instruments, trends and innovation on the market for catastrophe reinsurance ...</description>
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         <title>Microfinance investment vehicles: Due diligence and risk/return analysis</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>Analyzing microfinance investment vehicles - A brief due diligence framework for MIV investors
- Empirical risk/return analysis for MIVs...</description>
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         <title>Liquid asset led premiums vs. Illiquidity return led premiums</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <description>We simply define liquidity as the ability to take one&amp;amp;#8217;s money out of an investment instantaneously without a market impact. That would be the idea of perfect liquidity.  So one is able to take their money out of an investment without losing value in - There is a third dimension to liquidit...</description>
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         <title>The base &amp; precious metals market in 2010</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
	 <description> - 2010 outlook &amp;amp;#8211; Precious and base metal price developments
- Fund profile - Attunga Metals Trading (Offshore) Fund...</description>
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         <title>UK promises huge opportunities for longevity swaps market</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
	 <description>A Q&amp;amp;A with Centurion Fund Managers ...</description>
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         <title>Intergration of climate risk in due diligence</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
	 <description>Do asset managers consider climate risk in the due diligence process? A survey shows that only a handful of asset managers are integrating climate risks and opportunities throughout their investment practices...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE: The impact of environmental, social and governance factors on performance</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
	 <description>An overview of recent research on the impact of ESG factors on performance - The impact of ESG factors on portfolio returns
- Investment consultants see increasing demand in SRI
- Institutional investors see trade-off...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE: Asset backed lending in the small business space of the Americas</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
	 <description>J. Pablo Mari&amp;ntilde;o, CEO Savile Finance Group, explains the firm&amp;amp;#39;s investment strategy Asset backed lending in the small business space of the Americas, featuring Savile Finance Group:

- Current small business lending environment in the US
- Performance during the credit crisis
- Risk ma...</description>
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         <title>A SQUARE: 2010 art market outlook</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
	 <description>Index development and fund launches in 2010 - Mei Moses All Art Index
- Base of high net worth investors
- 2010 broad art market outlook
- May 2010 contemporary art fund launch &amp;amp;#8211; Anthea I...</description>
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