New York, NY, January 13, 2020 – The New York Alternative Investment Roundtable is pleased to announce the Luxembourg Trade & Investment Office as its newest non-profit sponsor. The Luxembourg Trade & Investment Office (LTIO-NY) is the New York-based arm of the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy dedicated to facilitating international business expansion for both…
By Diane C. Swonk, Chief Economist, Grant Thornton Most people assume that incumbents are able to manipulate the economy to avoid a recession in a presidential election year. That is wrong. Recessions or an economy so weak that it might as well have been a recession occurred during more than half of all presidential elections…
Frances Newton Stacy, director of portfolio strategy for Optimal Capital, discusses the current asset management environment –from the history of central banking and the business cycle, to what populism is and what types of risk it can create in an investment portfolio. Some of the topics she touches on include: How traditional technical analysis and…
By Erin Scherbert, Baker Tilly In 2014 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) began monitoring the global reference rate reform initiatives to determine appropriate alternatives to unsecured market benchmarks based on interbank offered rates. As a result of this monitoring initiative, the FASB and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York formed the Alternative Reference…
The Data Protection Law, 2017 (DPL) came into effect in the Cayman Islands on Sept. 30, 2019. The DPL introduces a legislative framework on data protection in the Cayman Islands and has been drafted around the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPL governs and defines both personal data and sensitive personal data….
By Diane C. Swonk, Chief Economist, Grant Thornton A slowdown in the third quarter, losses in manufacturing, weakness in the service sector and a moderation in employment have sent a chill through financial markets and renewed fears of recession. The impeachment inquiry in-and-of itself should not feed those concerns, but it has added to policy…
Legendary hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman wasn’t pulling any punches as he sat for an interview in front of about 100 members of the hedge fund industry. First he lambasted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), calling it abusive and mean. Then someone asked what he thought of private equity. “I think private equity is a…
I listened to Leon Cooperman’s talk at an event hosted by the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable. There were a few members of the media present at the event and they decided that the most interesting part of Cooperman’s talk was his comments regarding the private equity industry. “I think it’s a scam personally” Cooperman…
Legendary hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman took a shot at the private equity industry, saying low interest rates that have fueled its returns won’t last. “I think it’s a scam personally,” Cooperman said Wednesday at an event hosted by the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable. Cooperman said declining rates are the main reason that leveraged…
Legendary hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman took a shot at the private equity industry, saying low interest rates that have fueled its returns won’t last. “I think it’s a scam personally,” Cooperman said Wednesday at an event hosted by the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable. With interest rates likely to rise over the next few…
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