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Brokers Bolster Alternative Investments Offerings
By Ahila Karan, 18 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk Brokerage firms offer more alternative products as investors look to diversify and develop an appetite for risk. Alternative Investments (AI) have...
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“if you want, you can re-create hedge funds in a low-cost way”
By Ahila Karan, 17 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk New study demonstrates investors can use passive portfolios themselves to outperform hedge fund managers. According to a study for the Wall Street...
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Madoff investors to see 25-45% profits through legal settlement
By Parin Shah, 19 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk Investors in Beacon Associates, a Madoff “feeder” fund, and Andover Associates, both managed by BNY Mellon subsidiary Ivy Asset Management, are close...
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MSCI Expands its Risk Premia Index Family with New Quality Indices
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, today launched the MSCI Quality Indices, a new category within the MSCI Risk Premia suite of strategy indices....
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AIMA RESPONDS TO FINAL AIFMD IMPLEMENTATION TEXT
London – 19 December 2012: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund association, has responded to the publication of the final text of the implementing measures...
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Options Private Financial Cloud Continues Growth: Selected as an Advent...
NEW YORK ― December 18, 2012 ― Options, the provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud services platform for the exchange, banking, trading and investment communities, announced today that it...
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Hedge Fund Outlook 2013, Part 1 of 2
By Parin Shah, 20 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk In a two-part series, PROHEDGE speaks to Phillip Chapple, Executive Director of KB Associates in the UK about the outlook for the hedge fund industry...
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Innovative new fee structures cast doubt on the dominance of “2 & 20”
By Parin Shah, 20 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk Hedge fund managers are increasingly looking to flexible and tailored fee structures to improve the alignment of investor and manager interests and...
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The reclassification of “Emerging Markets”
By Ahila Karan, 19 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk JP Morgan is to move away from the World Bank measure of Emerging Markets next year, towards a two-dimensional approach, which incorporates both...
View ArticleDid the Fall of Banks Create New Opportunities for Hedge Funds?
BY: JESSE MARRUS of StreetID For several months hedge funds have been accused of luring top talent away from banks and other financial institutions. This is partially due to the fact that banks are not...
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Hedge Fund Outlook 2013, Part 2 of 2
By Parin Shah, 21 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk In the second of a two-part series, PROHEDGE speaks to Phillip Chapple, Executive Director of KB Associates in the UK about the outlook for the hedge...
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New European Regulations Will Put Compliance Pressures On U.S. Alternative...
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Will Have Significant Impact on Fundraising Activities, Operations and Business Models: KPMG International Survey With the compliance deadline for one of...
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South Africa prepares for “retail” hedge funds
By Parin Shah, 24 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk New regulation has been proposed for the South African hedge fund industry that would allow for funds to classify themselves as either “restricted”...
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Politicians dawdle on risky heights of Fiscal Cliff
By Ahila Karan, 27 December 2012, www.prohedge.co.uk Dr. Laurence Wormald, the Head of Research for SunGard APT, speaks to CNBC about portfolio reconstruction, and impacts of a one-month delay in the...
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The final curtain falls on AIFMD drafting
By Ahila Karan, 02 January 2013, www.prohedge.co.uk The EU Commission published the finalised AIFMD this Wednesday ending the suspense filled hedge fund arena. Managers however remain vociferous; “a...
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UCITS on the rise
By Ahila Karan, 03 January 2013, www.prohedge.co.uk According to EFAMA figures, net inflows into UCITS rose to €41bn in October, up from September’s net €10bn outflow. This growth lies in bond funds,...
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Numerix Strengthens Valuation Framework
Numerix Portfolio Enhanced with Multiple Pricing Curves to Support OIS Discounting and OTC Derivatives Pricing Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk...
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Hedge Funds Should Not Rush Launching in Order to Dodge AIFMD
By Ahila Karan, 04 January 2013, www.prohedge.co.uk “Managers need to ensure, particularly in this risk averse and tough capital raising environment, that all of their operations are solid. Rushing to...
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Indian regulators encourage Alternative Investments
By Ahila Karan, 04 January 2013, www.prohedge.co.uk Indian regulator, Sebi, has asked the Government to clarify policy on Foreign Direct Investment entering Alternative Investment Funds. Global...
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2&20 fee structure no to fizzle out by 2020
By Ahila Karan, 07 January 2013, www.prohedge.co.uk BreakingViews expects 2% management fee and 20% performance fee will no longer be an industry standard, despite its surprising persistence over the...
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