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The hedge fund industry's financing is now concentrated in four prime brokers at leverage multiples not seen since the pre-GFC era. That is the unavoidable conclusion from S&P Global's latest report, published this week: BNP Paribas, ...

Semi-liquid private credit vehicles promised investors the yield of private lending with the flexibility of periodic redemptions — and the first quarter of 2026 demonstrated, with uncomfortable clarity, that this promise has structural ...

Locking up capital used to be enough to earn a spread. That shortcut no longer works. The premium has not vanished. But it has become thinner, less reliable, and much less uniform than allocators often assume. In some areas, too much ...

The drawdown that rattled markets in March — triggered by a sharp escalation in Middle East tensions and rapid repositioning in energy and rates — did something useful. It separated two structures that are routinely grouped under the same ...

Two investors can subscribe to the same hedge fund, on the same headline terms, and still end up paying different effective performance fees. That is not a legal curiosity. It is a portfolio issue — and it deserves more attention than most ...

Short-dated cash is no longer a rounding error. The right question is not "what is the standard hedge fund benchmark?" — there isn't one. The right question is: what role does this sleeve play in the portfolio, and what hurdle proves it is ...

A 1% macro allocation cannot hedge a portfolio. It can decorate one. Yet that is approximately where most institutional macro sleeves sit — large enough to appear on the asset allocation chart, too small to change outcomes in the scenarios ...

Over the past 15 years, roughly two-thirds of the average event-driven fund's return is explained by equity beta, credit, and commodity factor exposure. Only about a third is alpha that cannot be attributed to systematic risk premia. That ...

In a full pass-through multi-strat, the average LP keeps $0.41 of every dollar of gross return. The rest goes to expenses and fees. That number — which has circulated in Barclays and BNP Paribas survey work — is not the worst-case ...