Hedge funds are dead. Long live private assets. Remember when hedge funds were the envy of investors? The returns were magical. The managers were gods. And they bestowed their bounty on a select smart-money set. Investors happily paid absurd fees for the privilege, typically a 2 percent management fee and 20 percent of profits. Some investors paid an additional “2 ...

In a recent talk about his new book, “Scale,” physicist Geoffrey West described climate change as a form of entropy –- disorder that’s created as the price of all the order and creative energy pent up in cities. In this view, climate change is not, as some argue, just a euphemism for global warming. It’s a broader term that reflects ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi is ranked among the top 25 cities in the world in terms of economic competiveness as a financial centre, moving up three rankings from the previous position on Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI). The development was announced during the launch of the GFCI 22 on Abu Dhabi Global Market premises on Monday. “As the ...