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China-focused hedge funds produce outstanding performance in 2012
China-focused hedge funds performed well in 2012 and tend to show significantly lower volatility compared with their equity benchmark. Event driven and special situation funds were a positive for 2012....
Recent years have seen an outflow of commodity derivatives talent from banks towards hedge funds and independent traders. This is the path trodden by Frédéric Lasserre, former head of Société Générale...
Independent commodity asset manager Diapason Commodities Management is launching a hedge fund trading spreads between commodity future contracts using a proprietary model of the refining industry.
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Faced with mounting regulatory pressures and changing market practices, prime brokers may have to increase financing rates and scale down the amount of leverage they provide to hedge funds.
Ex-Citadel managing director's structured credit hedge fund secures...
Grosvenor Capital Management has committed $85 million in seed capital for a structured credit hedge fund started by a group of former Citadel executives.
KPMG's Robert Mirsky talks about challenges facing the hedge fund industry...
Robert Mirsky, a partner and global head of hedge funds at accountancy firm KPMG, talks about regulation, tax and consolidation and offers his advice for start-up managers.
Mariner absorbs Concordia as hedge fund consolidation gathers pace
Concordia Advisors, which manages around $1 billion in relative value-oriented interest rate, credit and equity strategies, is to merge with $10 billion hedge fund Mariner Investment Group.
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Northern Trust appointed to replicate middle- and back-office functions of existing administrator BNY Mellon at $140bn hedge fund
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