Agcapita is Canada's only RRSP and TFSA eligible farmland investment fund and is part of a family of funds with almost $100 million in assets under management.

Riordan, Lewis & Haden is a leading private equity firm based in Southern California.

The slopes of the lines show how much the return of each stock moves in response to movement in the return on the market as a whole.

To calculate downside deviation, it is necessary to calculate the deviations one at a time.

While the Fed has not used the margin regulations to affect economic activity, it is still interested in limiting the chance for shocks to the financial system caused by speculation and bubbles.

The stock loan agreements that show up as liabilities include the money borrowed to finance the long stock positions. Traders think of this cash as collateral, but accountants view it as a short-term loan that must be repaid.

Some of the premium payments must go toward providing a death benefit for the insurance policy to gain the tax treatment of insurance.

One reason why a hedge fund may prefer to avoid registration is to avoid making some of the disclosures required of a public company. For this reason, investors often receive less information about hedge fund investments than they would receive about mutual fund positions or other registered investment portfolios.

The growth in assets under management will likely continue. Many industry watchers predict slower growth in the years ahead, in part because the early adopters are already investors.