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In the week ending 27 March, 2015, a white paper by Pershing Prime Services has predicted that the retirement market may be the next frontier for the growth of liquid alternatives. Since liquid alternatives are relatively new and don't come with a decades-long benchmarking history, fact-based education and training would play a central role in their adoption by DC plan fiduciaries, advisors and participants, according to Pershing. Education should focus on both the benefits and risks of these investments in a portfolio. Please also refer to the Opalesque Liquid Alts Roundtable which you can download here: www.opalesque.com/RT/LiquidAlternativesRoundtable.html

Preqin has found that sophisticated investors are leading the appetite for emerging markets-focused hedge funds; a new study has found that sustainable investing is key in mobilization of private capital towards addressing global challenges; a study by Convergex has found that one year after ‘Flash Boys’, investors remain concerned about high frequency trading; and latest research has shown that hedge fund providing a commercial tracking database its returns performance is not sufficient enough to measure that fund’s capacity.

The number of new hedge fund launches fell again in 2014 to 1,040, the third consecutive year of decline; Highland Capital Management is ramping up on its plan to launch a liquid alternative fund; Peninsula Investimentos is planning to raise $155m to invest i......................

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