By Randall Forsyth, includes “The solution of public pension funds falling behind their heroic return assumptions was to shift to riskier assets. … While alternative investments are sold as ways to boost returns and simultaneously reduce risk (by being uncorrelated to conventional stocks and bonds), they have not always delivered on that promise. … In other words, resort to leverage. That’s what hedge funds do, right? What could possibly go wrong?...”
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