Institutional allocators face an ever-changing and increasingly complex landscape. So, more than two years after we launched the first productivity study for allocators, which dove into their work habits to find out how they’re spending their time,...

The average alternative investment manager, according to our new survey of investor relations and business development professionals, works 52 hours each week. To anybody in this high-pressure, ever changing industry, those long hours are likely no...

Last year as COVID was raging across the country, Backstop organized a panel of allocators to discuss effective versus deficient client servicing they were receiving from external hedge fund managers. This year, Backstop decided to take an even...