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Investor News
News
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Smaller Asian economies offer best growth potential, according to RBC Capital Markets survey
Feb 14, 2011 -
Northern Trust makes senior hire in asset management division
Feb 14, 2011 -
Institutionalisation of investors prompts greater risk management and fee concessions
Feb 11, 2011 -
Hedge fund directors should sit on fewer boards and be paid more, according to industry experts
Feb 10, 2011 -
Altegris launches clearing business for managed futures industry
Feb 10, 2011
Press Releases
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VITEOS announces significant growth in assets under administration
Feb 07, 2011 -
Deutsche Bank and Traxis launch Ucits compliant global equity macro fund
Feb 01, 2011 -
Laven Partners launches Redflag database for professional investors
Jan 31, 2011 -
Global hedge fund industry not 'un-regulated' - AIMA
Jan 28, 2011 -
Deutsche Bank to provide third-party securities lending services for MOSERS
Jan 20, 2011
Opinion
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Alpha Waves: Road Warriors in the Transparency Wars
Jan 31, 2011 -
The unnoticed custody constraint in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
Jan 20, 2011 -
The drivers of hedge fund returns: Identifying risk and alpha
Jan 20, 2011 -
Alpha Waves: The Pebble in The Pond
Jan 20, 2011 -
Operational due diligence gets real at GAIM Ops Europe
Nov 02, 2010
Hedge fund and private equity managers expect strong growth to come from the smaller Asian economies such as Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, according to a study commissioned by RBC Capital Markets.
The institutionalisation of hedge fund investors is having a significant impact on the industry with managers enhancing their risk systems and reducing fees, according to a survey by research specialist Preqin.
Feb 11, 2011
Capping the number of hedge fund boards directors can sit on while simultaneously increasing their remuneration could significantly improve corporate governance standards in the alternatives space, according to industry experts.
Capital allocations into Ucits III-compliant absolute return funds in 2011 could significantly outstrip the inflows into Cayman funds, according to a Deutsche Bank survey of sophisticated investors.
Feb 08, 2011
Hedge funds posted marginal gains in January 2011 with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index rising 0.29% with event driven and relative value proving to be the best performing strategies for the month.
Feb 08, 2011
Capital continued to flow into Asian hedge funds with investors favouring strategies that offered protection against what many see as an accelerating inflation trend across the region, according to data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR).
London-based asset manager Blacksquare Capital is launching a Ucits-III compliant multi-manager product to target a specific level of annualised volatility of up to 8%.
Asset Management Finance (AMF) has made a passive minority investment in Brigade Capital Management, a New York-based manager of credit strategies.
Directional hedge fund strategies proved to the primary drivers of portfolio performance in 2010, according to the Hennessee Group, an investor advisory firm.
Trafalgar Capital Advisors (TCA), an alternative finance and advisory firm, has launched a hedged sterling share class for its TCA Global Credit Master Fund, which will also be offered to investors through a self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) wrapper.
Jan 25, 2011
