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National Fund Will Help Bail Defendants Out of Jail
NEW YORK (AP) — A national effort is launching to help low-income defendants get out of jail by bailing them out as their criminal cases progress through the courts.
The Bail Project grew out of a successful 10-year campaign in the Bronx to pay bail for needy cases, led by attorney Robin Steinberg of the Bronx Defenders, a legal assistance nonprofit.
She said the decade of data from that effort showed that 95 percent of the people who were bailed out using donated money returned to court for every appearance, and that when people could get out of jail, the…
What Happened to Federal Funding for Community Development?
New tool offers insight and suggests a plan to reverse a dramatic downward trend in CDBGs.
How Much Are You Paying for Investing Fees?
Asset management and mutual fund fees can really eat into your returns. Know how to control them.
Have I Got a Fund For You! Why Brokers Push Some Investments
Digging in to the fine print reveals the incentives that may lead investors to get conflicted advice.
SEPTA can't say exactly how much it pays pension fund managers
Why would SEPTA hire two new investment managers when they don't know if the spending will result in any more cash going into the…
How Private Equity Firm Audax Bought a Fund . . . From Itself.
Why Macro Hedge Fund Managers Can’t Keep Up
Managers who bet on macroeconomic trends trailed their hedge fund peers yet again.
This Is What Sets Top-Performing Hedge Fund Managers Apart
The source of their success lies in their ability to anticipate market conditions and drop their winning bets before they turn into losers, according to research.
How to Fix Your Hedge Fund Portfolio
By sticking to high-conviction strategies and collaborating with managers to design custom products, asset allocators can build better hedge fund portfolios, according to Willis Towers Watson.
How to Replicate Hedge Fund Strategies with ETFs
Liquid alternative ETFs provide access to hedge fund strategies that are not correlated with major asset classes.
How a Hedge Fund Saved Olive Garden by Making Its Breadsticks Better
50 Shades of Value? Why Smart Beta Fund Performance Varies So Much
Factor and smart beta funds are popular with investors, but new research shows performance can vary widely even in funds with similar strategies.
Why ‘Alpha Males’ Make Bad Hedge Fund Managers
More testosterone results in higher turnover, more aggressive stock picks, and a reluctance to admit to a bad investment, according to new research.
Why adding energy stocks to your retirement fund may be a smart move
Don't let fuel price fluctuations scare you away from energy stocks -- financial advisors say now is the time to strike a balance
How diversified should a mutual fund be?
The extent of diversification is driven by the mutual fund’s strategy and the market segment it invests in
Why Did the Harvard University Endowment Fund Only Earn 5.8%
Why do low-cost index funds outperform 98% of actively managed funds in the long-term? This short discussion attempts to shed some light on this paradox, usi...
When Data—Not Humans—Guide VC Funding, More Women Win
How investment platform CircleUp uses big data to fight gender bias.
Should you give an anchor investor a stake in your fund’s management company?
Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. But should you give preferential economics or other benefits to a seed anchor investor who makes a material commitment to the fund?
How to Stop Your Fund Manager From Feeding on Your Cash
Investors don’t have to settle for scraps anymore now that interest rates are rising
Do we really need to know what our fund managers hold?
Over the past few decades, the way in which we invest has dramatically changed. The industry has progressed so much particularly when it comes to technology, and investors can now deal funds daily on laptops and phones, whereas the process used to be much slower.
Coming Downturn. Cranking Leverage. What Could Go Wrong?
Most private equity fund managers expect that a downturn is coming — but they’re not cutting the amount of debt they’re putting on companies.
