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Hedge fund strategies continue to take pounding from volatile markets
Hedge funds lost 2.69% on average in September, the second straight month of steep losses. Continued market volatility and the eurozone’s constant crisis state affected all strategies.
The September returns for Dow Jones Investable Indexes, Frontier Capital Multi Asset Platform Fund versus the indexes, Hedge Fund Research Indexes and Lyxor Alternative Index.
Few markets have managed to escape the turmoil created by the prolonged eurozone debt crisis and eleventh-hour debt ceiling agreement in the US, and South Africa is no exception. For the second year in...
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Investable indexes: August 2011 returns
The August returns for Dow Jones Investable Indexes, Frontier Capital Multi Asset Platform Fund versus the indexes, Hedge Fund Research Indexes and Lyxor Alternative Index.
Hedge fund strategies severely impacted by August market volatility
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Types of operational risk loss by event, August 2009 to August 2011
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Deutsches Risk Rankings 2011
German derivatives dealers have been facing a tough combination of funding pressure, regulatory change and highly competitive markets for flow products over the last 12 months. That has helped the bigger names retain their edge in this year’s Deutsches...
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