Asset management
Investable indexes: March 2010 returns
The March 2010 returns for investable indexes, including Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index, Dow Jones Investable Indexes, Frontier Capital Multi Asset Platform Fund versus the indexes, Hedge Fund Research Indexes and Lyxor Alternative Index.
Breaking down the regulatory wall: marketing and distribution of funds in China
Hedge Funds Review finds out why marketing hedge funds into China is still mostly a dream for the future.
Passionate about funds: profile of Unigestion
Investor profile: Unigestion
Future perfect: where managed futures are expected to perform
Strategy: CTAs/managed futures
Latest hedge fund and fund of hedge fund launches
The latest listing of hedge fund, fund of hedge funds and structured products.
Prime brokers move to SAS 70 audits
Learning from the default of Lehman Brothers, a growing number of prime brokers are adapting their business model to ensure margin is segregated and secure, with some looking to win third-party validation for the controls they have in place. Which firms…
Cat bonds return
The market for catastrophe bonds dried up in 2008 and early 2009 as the financial crisis took its toll. Confidence is returning, helped by wide spreads and a re-think about the assets used to collateralise catastrophe bonds, but issuance has yet to…
Prime brokers move towards independent SAS 70 checks
Prime brokers have focused on bolstering asset security for clients after billions of dollars of client assets were caught up in the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE).
Mature pension funds will not survive another financial crisis
Pension schemes have been severely affected by the recent financial crisis. But, according to Cardano’s Theo Kocken and Joeri Potters, the prognosis for recovery is dependent on the maturity of the individual schemes – unless there is widespread systemic…
Solvency management provides reinsurance opportunity
Testing economic conditions have prompted widespread moves by life insurers to reinsure their liabilities in order to gain capital relief. As the situation eases, will demand for reinsurance fall, or are other factors coming to prominence? Blake Evans…
Hedge funds targeted by SEC large-trader reporting proposal
An SEC proposal targets high-frequency trading and fund managers in particular.
All mixed up
Global Fund Administration Management Report 2010
Open for business
Global Fund Administration Management Report 2010
Multiplying challenges
Global Fund Administration Management Report 2010
Braced for impact
Global Fund Administration Management Report 2010