23 Jul 2008
Hedgeweek Comment: US-India nuclear deal will spur hedge funds towards subcontinent
Prime minister Manmohan Singh won a vote of confidence in India's parliament yesterday with a comfortable margin.Prime minister Manmohan…
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Eurex Clearing to build central counterparty platform for clearing OTC derivatives
Eurex Clearing, part of the international derivatives exchange Eurex, is examining various formats for the introduction a central…
Comment: SEC amends emergency order regarding short sales of securities of certain financial firms
Sean O'Malley, a partner in the business law department and a member of the financial services and investment management groups at US law…
Legal changes boost appeal of hedge funds
With markets worldwide suffering from the impact of the credit crunch over the past year and amid a drop in overall fund investment in…
22 Jul 2008
Citi raids Lehman for senior prime finance executives
Citi has announced the appointments of Christopher Greer, Sean McGinty and Norman Escoffery to senior roles in its Americas prime finance…
MFA and CPIC urge SEC not to extend emergency order on short selling
The Managed Funds Association and the Coalition of Private Investment Companies have written to Securities and Exchange Commission chairman…
Nedgroup Investments lands mandate for Premium Portfolio Fund
Fund of hedge funds manager Nedgroup Investments has won a USD9m mandate from Dutch wealth management firm Attica Vermogensbeheer for its…
Edhec Alternative Indexes see mostly negative returns in June
The Risk and Asset Management research centre at French business school Edhec notes that June saw a very sharp decline in the stock markets…
Hedgeweek Comment: Bayou hedge fund fraud continues to reverberate
Frustrated investors in the defunct Bayou Management hedge funds run by Sam Israel, the fund manager who faked his death last month in a…
21 Jul 2008
Société Générale appoints head of hedge fund relations for Asia-Pacific
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking has announced the appointment of Grégoire Déchy as head of hedge fund relations for the…
GLG Partners appoints Jamil Baz as chief investment strategist
New York-listed alternative asset manager GLG Partners has appointed Jamil Baz as chief investment strategist, collaborating with the…
Hedge funds' fixed-income trading stagnates, says Greenwich survey
In a dramatic turnaround from previous years, the volume of fixed-income trading among US hedge funds if anything fell from 2007 to 2008,…
Foreign managers kept waiting as hedge fund regime clicks into gear
Some two years after the launch of Spain's registration regime for hedge funds and funds of hedge funds, the development of the market has…
Fund growth boosts third-party providers
Historically the third-party fund administration industry in Spain has been relatively small, but the development of the country's hedge…
Alternative providers look outside for management expertise
Foreign hedge fund managers may find themselves unable to access the fledgling Spanish market directly without going to the cost and…
