Hedge funds
Speaking the right language
Is there a need for prime brokers and those serving hedge funds to have staff in continental Europe, as regulators make their markets increasingly friendly to hedge funds?
Risk control
The debate continues between those calling for capital protection and those calling for extra leverage in hedge fund portfolios
a changing landscape
Derivatives debate
Patience pays off
Platinum Capital Management has launched a new distressed debt fund after a long process of analytical research
Japan comes of age
As the economic climate changes in the Land of the Rising Sun, hedge funds are rapidly expanding to become a high-profile investment option
The long and the short of it
Early signs of improving global economic conditions are causing fund managers to reassess their portfolios - with all eyes on US long/short
One broker or two?
Prime brokerage
alphabeta soup
Analysing returns
Pole position
Refco Alternative Investments is knocking on pension funds‘ and institutional investors‘ doors with a range of diversified and single strategy funds of hedge funds, and a passive indexed product, too
A better alternative?
Investible indices vs funds of funds
Hammer and Fickle
Russia
Bursting with energy
Technology
Press gang
Press and marketing
Using trees to grow money
Performance analysis
The challenges of diversity
Contents
Orchard Funds, Theta Enhanced Portfolio - November 2003
Orchard Funds does not aim to shoot the lights outin returns, but since its inception in January 2003 ithas shed illumination on gloom pervading investors’portfolios since March 2000.