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Law firm Seward & Kissel, involved in setting up the first hedge fund, sees a trend towards direct investment by large asset allocators through managed accounts or other bespoke vehicles.
Investors are embracing managed accounts for direct investment into hedge funds. Investors want their risks and exposures protected from default or counterparty or service provider failure.
Goldman Sachs will focus in 2012 on increasing the footprint of the trading and execution business in growth markets in Latin America and Asia, particularly China as regulations become more open.
Banks are increasingly using their IT infrastructure to increase their competitive advantage. Learn how this can work in practice.
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Blackstone takes an economic stake as a partner in a select number of hedge funds using its size and scale to bring intellectual and financial capital to help nurture and grow a sustainable business.
The Cayman Islands remains the preferred domicile for hedge funds despite a backlash against offshore financial centres. The government is now promoting Cayman’s contribution to the world economy.
Regulation that has helped curtail investment bank proprietary trading will bring fresh talent to the hedge fund industry, bringing with it innovation and growth, says Ernst & Young.
With 14 managers on its Luxembourg-based Ucits platform, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is able to offer institutional investors a wide diversity of hedge fund strategies within a regulated framework.
Independent Ucits platform provider Alpha Ucits says managers are attracted to products that are able to raise assets. Selection criteria are high, with the average AUM of managers above $1 billion.
Hedge Fund Research sees opportunities for hedge funds in emerging markets, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. It also predicts EU regulations could negatively impact Ucits hedge funds.
As new regulations come into force for hedge funds, more information will need to be collected and formatted for use in compliance and risk reporting both internally and externally to regulators.
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
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