Hedge funds
European Repo Council chair threatens to call in EC over settlement times
De Vidts’ impartiality questioned due to dual Clearstream role
DoubleLine warns of debt rollover risk
Asset manager plans to be liquidity provider if US credit market is distressed
A global outlook on hedge fund regulations | Part 3: An Asian perspective
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Third-party admin adoption all but complete for hedge funds
Segmentation expected between providers serving large versus emerging managers
Combine market, credit and liquidity risk simultaneously
Separate treatments can lead to underestimation of total risk
A global outlook on hedge fund regulations | Part 2: The impact on operating models
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Pressure builds on CFTC to outlaw post-trade name give-up
Controversial practice will not ‘go away’ without action from regulators
Lyxor: index funds may have weakened corporate governance
Rise of passive investment leaves a vacuum to be filled by hedge fund activists
Robert Litterman: lessons from the quant quake
Ex-Goldman partner says size, crowding and equity risk are bad for quant funds
BlueCrest: fixed-income market structure faces uncertain future
COO in interview cites equity-like evolution and regulation squeezing liquidity
A global outlook on hedge fund regulations | Part 1: Reporting and compliance requirements
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Profile: Citadel's Hamill on the fight for swaps market share
New entrant is making prices - and hedging - electronically
Full capital structures allow revival of synthetic CDOs
Managed deals could be next, but market's potential is expected to be limited
Deutsche Bank places faith in ‘structurally changed’ CTAs
Outperformance no short-term trend, as industry has seen “fundamental changes”
Mifid II threatens dealing commissions and broker research
Ring-fenced research pots required to cut out inducements
Hedge fund ETFs ruffle active managers
Institutions may not favour volatile, high-beta hedge fund replicators, critics say
China's clearing and reporting regimes being built bottom-up
But reported problems include disclosure of state secrets stopping US trading
Radical change needed to close hedge fund gender gap
Asian hedge funds best for gender equality but Europe lags, research finds
Evasion concerns hamper Mifid package trade fix
Esma working on package trades, but "too premature" to discuss a solution
Japan equity derivatives trading stalls on Nikkei 15-year high
Abenomics had driven a surge in Japan equity derivatives activity, but now cash investors dominate
Largest funds face more equity and credit risk six months on
But industry sees less interest rate risk and inversely exposed to volatility
Decline of FoHFs saps due diligence efforts
Investment consultants accused of offering poor substitute to decent research
Esma considering revisions to CSDR buy-in technical standards
Extra-territoriality, costs, information gaps in settlement chains are challenges
Millennium: selective price discovery mitigates illiquidity
Route orders to intermediaries willing to absorb risk, says currency manager