The hedge fund industry has experienced considerable and steady growth in recent years, both in terms of the number of funds and the assets under management. With this development has come a growing focus from investors on the more complex hedge fund strategies and the manner in which the portfolios...
The hedge fund industry has grown tremendously since it was founded 50 years ago. Since the late 1980s, the number of hedge funds has risen by more than 25% per year. Despite the increased interest in hedge funds as an asset class, there is only a limited understanding of what...
This paper is on the European hedge fund industry. Most hedge fund regulation is based on the premise of restricting the sale of interests in hedge funds to limited numbers of qualified, knowledgeable investors. As more investors clamor for access to hedge funds, particularly in current stock market conditions, and...
The hedge fund industry has experienced enormous growth in the last decade, growing by some estimates from as few as 300 funds in 1990 to more than 3000 today. They have become highly visible and are thought to command up to $400 billion in capital before leverage. This article analyzes...
The hedge fund industry is at a key stage of its evolution. So far, it has been a niche area appealing mostly to high net worth individuals. Now it could join the investment mainstream and receive a far larger share of the $50 trillion pool of global financial assets. But...
The hedge fund industry says it supports federal government plans to ban naked short selling and impose a disclosure regime for covered short selling.The Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association AIMA said the group had been in talks with regulators and the federal government about legislation to...
TREASURY SECRETARY Henry Paulson wants to convert the $700 billion TARP Troubled Asset Recovery Program from rifle-shot assistance for financial institutions into a "honey pot" for any ailing entity. TARP's purchase of equity interests in private financial firms -- socialism by any definition -- missed the mark. The honey pot...
The horror isn't just in Hollywood's films any more, the whole industry is jumpy as the money stops rolling in. Geoffrey Macnab reports from the gloomy Santa Monica gathering of producers and distributors It's a perfect storm of financial distress," Stewart Till, chairman of the UK...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b44247/alternative_beta_s) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication" to their offering. It has long been recognized that a main part of a Hedge Funds's return corresponds to risk premiums rather...
Business in brief FINANCE The embattled hedge fund GLG has told its staff to expect job cuts as the industry continues to reel from the credit crunch. With investors redeeming their cash and banks calling in the credit lines the industry is facing losses and is...
Year-to-date performance is -18.20 per cent NEW YORK, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RBC Capital Markets today reported that for the month of October 2008 the RBC Hedge 250 IndexR had a net return of -5.40 per cent. This brings the year-to-date return of the Index to -18.20...
Majority of Senior Partners at U.S. Firms Expect Rising Compliance Costs Will Make Hedge Funds More Costly to Operate NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 98 percent of senior hedge fund managers reported that the new U.S. Presidential Administration is likely to increase regulation of the...
Total Estimated Assets Fell 16% in Q3 2008, Performance -3.9% in October NEW YORK -- HedgeFund.net released its Q3 2008 hedge fund asset flow estimates and preliminary October hedge fund performance estimates. HFN estimates total assets in single manager funds fell 16% in Q3 2008 to $2.497 trillion....
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Tim Emslie has been named to lead the newly created commodity research department for Country Hedging, commodity brokerage subsidiary of CHS. In his new role, Emslie will establish a centralized unit to search, aggregate and analyze the broad range...
Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the investmentmanagement industry, today announced that its flagship portfolio managementand accounting platforms have received top honors from Buy-Side Technologymagazine for the second consecutive year. Geneva® was named 'BestBuy-Side Portfolio Accounting Product,' and Advent Portfolio Exchange®APX was...
"SFAS 157 Fair Value Measurements: Implementation Challenges for the Alternative Investment Industry" Examines Revised "Fair Value" Guidelines ROSELAND, N.J., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- CPA firm Rothstein Kass today announced that it has issued a new White Paper Report intended to help the alternative investment sector - including...
BOSTON -- AIR Worldwide Corporation AIR today announced that Katarsis Capital Advisors SA, the advisory company of Eskatos, a hedge fund that specializes in investment in Insurance-Linked Securities ILS, has licensed CATRADER[R], the industry standard application for analyzing catastrophe reinsurance and Insurance-Linked Securities. Katarsis will use CATRADER to advise Eskatos...
Former Morgan Stanley Managing Director to head distribution for leader in providing hedge fund replication and institutional class alternative investment products NEW YORK -- Anthony B. Davidow has been named Senior Vice President & Head of Distribution at IndexIQ (www.indexiq.com), a pioneer in developing hedge fund replication and...
A person familiar with Bain Capital's deal for the top floor of the trophy tower 590 Madison Avenue, said that the investment firm was moving forward with its plan to build out and occupy the space. Some brokers had begun to wonder aloud what Bain would do with...
CHICAGO & NEW YORK -- Sidley Austin LLP has been ranked among the top legal advisors to the hedge fund industry in the 2008 Alpha Awards[TM] by Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine. In this year's survey, Sidley placed first in three of the five sub-categories of the survey, including "business planning...
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