18 May 2011
Wider choice for hedge fund investment
By Gabriel Bousbib – We all know by now the key benefits and drawbacks of separate managed accounts. Properly set up and operated separate…
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Managed account challenges for investors and service providers
By Simon Gray - Hedge fund managers may have long been reluctant to provide access to their services through managed accounts, but they are…
Comment: Emerging emancipation in emerging markets
Stefan Keller, head of MAP research & external relations at Lyxor AM, looks at how emerging markets are showing emancipation in terms…
17 May 2011
The case for professional boards
By Robert C Pozen – When the world’s largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008 by massive injections of…
RBC Hedge 250 Index returned 0.94 per cent in April
RBC Capital Markets today reported that for the month of April 2011 the RBC Hedge 250 Index had a net return of 0.94 per cent. This brings…
CACEIS assists TOBAM's international development
CACEIS has put in place its Prime MO Middle office service for TOBAM's management company, to provide support through the various stages of…
16 May 2011
Northern Trust to acquire Omnium from Citadel
Northern Trust has reached an agreement to acquire Omnium LLC, a hedge fund administrator with approximately USD70 billion in assets under…
15 May 2011
Hedge fund flows up 2.29% in May, says GlobeOp
Hedge fund flows, as measured by the GlobeOp Capital Movements Index, were up 2.29% in May.“After last month’s pause, investors continued…
13 May 2011
Deutsche Börse management and supervisory boards recommend Alpha Beta offer
The management board and the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft have made a joint statement recommending that the…
12 May 2011
Emerging communications system architectures deliver for hedge funds and other specialty firms
While there is no such thing as “typical” trading communications requirements for small- and medium-sized financial services businesses…
Advocating the Asian Cloud
By Rick Morris – It wasn’t so long ago that hedge funds refused to countenance any kind of remote hosting solution. Concerns about security…
Lyxor Global Hedge Fund Index up 1.4% in April
The Lyxor Global Hedge Fund index, an investable index based on Lyxor’s hedge fund platform which tracks the overall hedge fund universe,…
US policy means global boom-bust in 2011-12
By Charles Dumas - An undervalued country within a fixed-currency will tend to inflation, an overvalued country to deflation. Within the…
Orinda Asset Management launches multi-manager hedged equity mutual fund
Orinda Asset Management LLC, an independent, privately-held asset management firm, is to launch the Orinda Multi-Manager Hedged Equity Fund…
Citigroup’s OTC service illuminates opaque market
According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the notional amount of outstanding OTC contracts, as of June 2010, was…
