28 Sep 2007
How Financial Markets are Combating Network Latency Network Latency
Network latency is the time needed to effect a communication between two network nodes.PARA_BREAK_SENTINEL_9f8e7d6cNetwork latency is the…
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Light Versus Dark: ECNS and Dark Liquidity in FX
Much has been made of dark pools of liquidity in the equity market at present. These are financial markets not available or visible to the…
Fairness and Transparency in the Global FX Market
The e-FX market has evolved rapidly to meet the changing needs of an ever more diverse group of market participants.The trend in the FX…
AccelorTM - Meeting the Needs of the Algorithmic Trading Community
Accelor is the next-generation foreign exchange ECN for all market participants, developed to meet the needs of the most demanding…
US fund investors and asset managers to examine market issues
The US President's Working Group on Financial Markets has announced the composition and aims for two private sector committees, one…
Comment: Three early lessons from the sub-prime crisis - a French answer to French criticism
Noël Amenc, professor of finance and director of the Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, argues that regulators and political…
Hedgemedia's AltInvestment Global News Round-Up: Bear Stearns talks with bidders over minority equity stake
A group of international banks are seeking to buy a stake of up to 20 per cent in embattled US securities firm Bear Stearns, with HSBC,…
Hedge fund industry joins forces with New York housing charity
Hedge Funds for Habitat-NYC, an initiative by the hedge fund community to provide New York families with a once-in-a-lifetime home…
27 Sep 2007
Ireland seeks to boost role as hedge fund domicile
The growth of the global hedge fund industry over the past decade to a size variously estimated at between USD1.7trn and USD2.5trn has…
Independents continue to thrive
Over the course of this decade several big banks have entered the hedge fund administration market by snapping up independent…
The people factor
With hedge fund industry assets now standing at more than USD1.5trn, at least half of which is in funds of hedge funds, Bank of Ireland…
Appeal to fund managers slow to gain traction
Like other investment services centres such as the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Luxembourg, Ireland continues to look to increase…
The resources challenge
Ireland's continuing growth as a servicing centre for hedge funds is being driven by the desire of managers to have their funds serviced by…
A unique corporate culture that stands apart from the crowd
In a market such as Dublin, where more than 60 administration firms are serving the hedge fund industry, firms need to articulate clearly…
