After the financial crisis and the accompanying falls in the stock markets, many commentators have questioned the appropriateness of tracking cap-weighted indices. These indices are particularly inefficient and, through their momentum properties, favour the emergence of speculative bubbles. Read next page

In the study, EDHEC calls into question the method and the data used by the European regulator to measure the risk of private equity investments, in particular the correlation coefficient of performance of private equity and that of listed equities. Read next page

EDHEC-Risk Institute has announced the results of the EDHEC European ETF Survey 2010, which presents the results of a comprehensive survey of 192 institutional investors, asset managers and private wealth managers conducted between January and March 2010. Read next page

As part of the CACEIS research chair on non-financial risks in investment funds, EDHEC-Risk Institute has surveyed UCITS and alternative asset managers, their service providers, external observers, and investors for their views of structuring hedge fund strategies as UCITS. Read next page

In a new position paper entitled “Spillover Effects of Counter-cyclical Market Regulation: Evidence from the 2008 Ban on Short Sales,” Professor Abraham Lioui, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School looks at the impact of the ban on broad market indices in the US and in Europe (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany). Read next page

Dr. Sergio Focardi, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, and Programme Director of the EDHEC-Risk Institute Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management for Europe, has released a new book entitled “Quantitative Equity Investing: Techniques and Strategies”, co-authored with Frank J. Fabozzi and Petter N. Kolm. Read next page

In an open letter addressed to European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier on March 15, 2010, EDHEC-Risk Institute has warned of the dangers of prohibiting “naked” sales of sovereign credit default swaps. Read next page

The EDHEC-Risk Institute will be staging the fifth edition of the EDHEC-Risk Alternative Investment Days at The Brewery in London on February 8 and 9 next. Read next page

FTSE Group and EDHEC-Risk Institute have today launched the FTSE EDHEC-Risk Efficient Indices. Read next page

EDHEC-Risk Institute, the leading centre for asset and risk management research, announced today that the official name for the holding entity governing its entire range of activities would henceforth be ‘EDHEC-Risk Institute’. Read next page