18 May 2011
Hedge fund industry leverage declines as total capital reaches record level
Hedge fund industry leverage declined in the last 12 months, according to the HFR Leverage Report, released by Hedge Fund Research, Inc.…
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Barclays Capital and HFR Asset Management launch managed accounts relationship
Barclays Capital and HFR Asset Management, LLC, (HFR) have announced the launch of a managed accounts relationship. The combined effort…
Renaissance Capital opts for Imagine's ASP service
Renaissance Capital has selected Imagine Software's award-winning hosted ASP service for real-time portfolio and risk management.…
Eze Castle expands cloud computing services to London
Eze Castle Integration's Eze Cloud services are now available to London-based companies. Based on customer feedback, Eze Castle launched…
Operating bespoke managed accounts
By Tyler Kim – In recent months, institutional investors have shown increased interest in the alpha-generating strategies associated with…
Investor preferences drive managed account innovation
By Simon Gray – With the fourth anniversary approaching of the onset of the credit crunch and the crisis that rocked the hedge fund…
Meeting investors’ transparency needs
By Stefan Keller – The hedge fund industry has just set a new record with more than USD2trn in assets under management, a recovery from the…
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…
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…
SEC freezes assets of fraudulent San Diego day-trading scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency enforcement action to halt a fraudulent scheme being conducted by John…
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…
Para Advisors to launch a UCITS III compliant fund on the MontLake UCITS Platform
Para Advisors LLC a New York based event driven fund manager with a current AUM of USD350 million, will shortly launch the Para…
Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index up 1.80% in April
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished up 1.80% in April, with estimated new asset flows totalling USD9bn.Oliver Schupp,…
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…
