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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Mary Ann Deignan, Rich Thomas, and Kathryn Night, Lazard, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory, and Rich Thomas and Kathryn Night are Managing Directors in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard. This post is based on a Lazard memorandum by Ms.

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Amundi to buy private markets specialist Alpha Associates

Financial Times M&A

Europe’s largest asset manager becomes latest group to push into fast-growing alternatives sector

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Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse

Global Finance

Apart from political stability and economic reforms, factors like strategic location, abundant natural resources, infrastructure expansion, investment incentives, and a growing local and regional market are among the factors making Tanzania quite attractive. Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2% Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2%

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

These ignored investment classes are what fall under the rubric of alternative investments, and while many of these choices have been with us for as long as we have had financial markets, they were accessible to only a small subset of investors for much of that period.

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Mutual Fund Performance at Long Horizons

Harvard Corporate Governance

Most research that considers investor outcomes reports on unconditional or conditional (as in “alpha” estimates) arithmetic means of returns that are measured over relatively short horizons, most often monthly. We show that the percentage of funds that outperform market benchmarks decreases with the horizon over which returns are measured.

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Alpha FMC completes acquisition of White Marble Consulting

Benzinga

05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alpha Financial Markets Consulting ("Alpha"), a leading global provider of specialist consulting services to the financial services industry, has acquired White Marble Consulting ("White Marble"), a specialist marketing consultancy firm to asset management, wealth management and alternatives clients.

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Alpha Modus and Insight Acquisition Corp Close Business Combination and Alpha Modus will Begin Trading Under "AMOD" Ticker

Benzinga

13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. ("Alpha Modus" or the "Company"), a technology company with a core focus on artificial intelligence in retail, is pleased to announce that the business combination between Insight Acquisition Corp. and Alpha Modus Corp. and Alpha Modus Corp. CORNELIUS, N.C.

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