Stuck on the margins

Prime broking

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The burgeoning hedge fund industry has kept ahead of most market participants when it comes to innovative trading strategies and the use of new instruments. And the increasing presence of hedge funds in the region - some 1,050 funds now manage more than $132 billion in assets as of end-2006, according to Singapore-based research company Eurekahedge - has led prime brokers to try to keep up with them by offering an array of new services.

One offering prime brokers have promoted in the past year is

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