02 May 2011
SEC charges former hedge fund professional Hollander with insider trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Jonathan Hollander, a former hedge fund professional, with insider trading in…
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Key regulatory issues for Swiss managers
By Ger van Nijkerken - Switzerland’s position at the heart of Europe means that the country’s alternative investment industry tends to be…
Swiss fund industry comes to terms with European rulebook
By Simon Gray - As much as any country, Switzerland has observed with trepidation the European Union’s painful progress toward regulation…
28 Apr 2011
Local presence at a time of transition
By Georges Boivin - Switzerland is the world’s second-largest market for funds of hedge funds after the US, and approximately five per cent…
Stability and efficiency for fund managers
By Michael Appenzeller - Over the past two years Switzerland has been a focus for hedge fund managers re-examining the location of their…
Comment: Endowments and Foundations are back and better than ever as active allocators to hedge funds
Don Steinbrugge (pictured), Chairman of Agecroft Partners, looks at how endowments and foundations are rediscovering their appetite for…
GlobeOp achieves record AuA of USD167 billion
GlobeOp Financial Services' assets under administration (AuA) increased to a record total of USD167 billion as at 31 March 2011, a 12%…
27 Apr 2011
AAA reports worldwide rise in timber prices
Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), an alternative investment advocacy organisation, reports that global demand for timber has increased,…
Deutsche Bank to provide SuperX data to Rosenblatt and Tabb Group
Deutsche Bank’s Autobahn Equity business is to provide average volumes and trade sizes of SuperX, its US Alternative Trading System, to…
26 Apr 2011
Hedge fund launches up 51%, says PerTrac
Single-manager hedge funds recovered in 2010 with assets under management (AUM) increasing 11% over 2009 to USD1.6 trillion and 1,184 new…
25 Apr 2011
“S&P’s U.S. downgrade adds further fuel to a red-hot political debate”, says Skandia Investment Group’s head of asset allocation Rupert Watson
Credit rating agency S&P has downgraded the outlook for US long term debt from stable to negative. They said there was a 1 in 3 chance…
Comment: To rebalance, or not to rebalance? That is the question…
James Skeggs, Head of Research for Newedge, takes a look at the potential benefits and costs of portfolio rebalancing. At the outset of his…
Eurex admits Nanhua Futures Hong Kong
The international derivatives exchange Eurex has admitted Nanhua Futures (Hong Kong) Co Ltd as a new trading participant based in Hong…
JP Morgan announces trade-matching functionality for the US Tri-Party Repo market
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has launched its Repo Trade Matching Engine. This new functionality will enhance the operating…
GAIN Capital to acquire Deutsche Bank’s dbFX retail foreign exchange trading business
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), a global provider of online trading services, has reached an agreement with Deutsche Bank AG to…
