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Service provider rankings reveal best in class providers
Service providers continue to play a vital role for hedge funds as the industry faces regulatory and market changes. The Service Provider Rankings 2012 show who has excelled in this environment.
As hedge fund replication strategies mature, they are emerging as a viable source of alternative beta. The adoption of more sophisticated modelling techniques may lead to improved performance.
Commodity hedge funds need to move beyond fundamentals and get to grips with macro factors and liquidity flows. Many have underestimated the ‘financialisation’ of commodity markets.
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Service Provider Rankings 2012
The Service Provider Rankings 2012 recognise the important role played by a wide range of organisations in the smooth running and operation of hedge funds and funds of hedge funds globally.
Investors continue to misunderstand valuation risk in level 3 hedge...
Emma Cusworth discovers why it remains difficult for investors and regulators to value level 3 assets and hold service providers accountable for any mistakes.
Sponsored Q&A: Prime Capital
Werner Humpert, managing director of client solutions, talks about Prime Capital’s investment strategy, the impact of regulation on European-based funds and the future of the German hedge fund market.
Positive sentiment lifts hedge fund performance in September
Market rallies following policy announcements from the ECB and US Federal Reserve helped hedge fund performance in September, reports Eurekahedge. CTAs were the only strategy with negative performance.
Central bank intervention may have contained the financial crisis but...
Central bank intervention, quantitative easing in various forms and vacillating investors have characterised the global economic climate in 2012. Questions now centre on what bankers will do in 2013.
Comparing commodity indexes throws up useful factors in taking into...
An analysis of commodity indexes shows third-generation indexes accurately take into account the fundamentals of commodity futures markets by going long backwardated assets and short contangoed ones.
Custody Risk announces shortlist for European Awards 2012
The shortlist has been announced for the Custody Risk European Awards 2012
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