Profile/Regulation
Six of the best - the secret to Hexam's success
Managers at boutique Hexam Capital have vowed Hexam will not have more than six partners, will cap assets at $3bn, and abide by process. David Walker chats with them...
EnTrusting what you know
ENtrust Capital's equities fund has been turning a profit for over eight years by sticking to what it knows best. It's still growing, by the way, as David Walker discovered when he put the following questions to the fund's co-founder, Mark Fife (pictured)
So what if the US slows? The party's thumping in Asia
Allocators to hedge funds are one-eyed that Asia and commodities are where it's at - but their other eye is firmly on the US, report Solomon Teague and David Walker...
And now, Eurex has a short story about Russia for us…
Being bearish in the land of the bear was once nigh impossible, but Eurex told David Walker all that was about to change...
"And how would Madam like us to make it?"
Credit Suisse says bespoke is the way forward, notes Solomon Teague - but it does have bets placed each way
Commissioning change
Ferc chairman Joseph Kelliher talks with David Watkins about his views on the US energy markets, the Ferc's competition review and what needs doing next
The CDO Factory
CDO boutique Cohen & Company has emerged as a major force in the structured credit market. But as a niche operator, it has to think and act fast to stay ahead of the competition. Dalia Fahmy talks to senior management and discovers that the key is…
Florence Lombard
The executive director of the Alternative Investment Management Association in London talks to Nikki Marmery about the current challenges of representing the hedge fund industry
The expectation game
Practitioner profile
Subprime's silver lining
Ian Hawkins, President of Invicta
Why eclectic excellence is the key unlocking 3C's success
3C has an interesting range of funds and is launching into another based on options and futures trading, so bringing its investors returns from private equity, through to a Japanese product focused on the China growth story, as David Walker reports
John Holman
The head of fixed income at the New York Stock Exchange talks to Dalia Fahmy about the exchange's new bond platform, set for launch on April 23
DBRS breaks Europe
Breaking Europe
Seeking the hidden volatility
Practitioner profiles
Advisers look to OpenSky
Profile
Stepping up surveillance
CFTC chairman Reuben Jeffery talks to Alexander Campbell
Independent thinker
It took Tim Haywood quite some time to buy Julius Baer Investments free from the Julius Baer parent group. Now, at the group renamed Augustus Asset Managers Limted, he is casting his eye forward, he tells David Walker over a cuppa
Swings and roundabouts...
Investment trust shareholders may once have been told to take the good of liquidity with the bad of wide discounts to net asset value. London arbitrageur Carrousel Capital takes a different view as its chief executive Bruno Sanglé-Ferrière explains...
The Guarded State
New Jersey's pension fund, under the direction of Orin Kramer, is implementing a relatively modest allocation to hedge funds, yet even that was too much for some trustees in a fund that had never used an outside manager before, as Phyllis Feinberg reports
A friendly helping hand
Practitioner profile
Eyeing change in Malaysia
Country profile