The Reading Room

Africa has ‘too many bourses, too little liquidity’

Call for integration of continent's 23 stock exchanges

Way clear for Wall Street overhaul

Pending legislation will allow banks to own hedge funds

Hedge fund investors dumping small funds

Investors pulled $11 billion in first quarter of 2010

Paul Marshall offers caution on Ucits

Investors may be "disappointed" in the more heavily regulated Ucits

Pension funds to bulk up farmland investments

Part of strategy is to own real assets, especially land

Pension funds allocate across alternative assets

Infrastructure and commodities managers see AuM increase

Cocoa king hungry for African food production

Armajaro seeks food production capacity in Africa

The proposed new Regional Investment Fund Regime

Maitland’s Dale Lippstreu examines the implications

Investors and hedge funds get real about returns

Hedge fund investors content with smaller gains