Governmental aid flows remain pathetically insufficient even to deal with all the "old" problems of poverty, never mind the new problems of climate change.

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Looking past the current public cynicism about the hedge fund of funds industry, it is incumbent on financial advisors and their clients to bear in mind that the need for non-correlating asset classes will never change, and hedge funds of funds still provide this effective source of diversification.

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