Asset management
Stock loan exchanges gain traction
Exchange trading of stock loans promises to inject a needed dose of transparency and liquidity into the securities lending business. Hedge Funds Review reports on the latest developments.
Concordia Global Multi-Strategy Fund: Concordia Advisors
Profiting from the relative value cycle
Capitalising on volatility
Strategy: fixed income arbitrage
Not so grim up North
Hedge fund allocations in the Nordic region vary widely from country to country. Hedge Funds Review digs into the market to find out why.
Happy with regulation
Tiny Luxembourg may be the smallest EU member state but in the investment fund world it is a giant. Hedge Funds Review finds out what it can offer to hedge fund managers.
Galena Special Situations Fund: Galena Asset Management
Mining the situation
Latest hedge fund and fund of hedge fund launches
March 2010 launched
Paradigm shift
The financial world has undergone a paradigm shift. A bold statement that many would support and probably an equal number would question. Whatever the view, there has been a profound and possibly permanent change that will define this decade, maybe even…
Acting up
Strategy: activist
Dynamic risk budgeting through the core-satellite approach
A recent EDHEC-Risk Institute publication on risk control through dynamic core-satellite portfolios of exchange traded funds (ETFs) supported by Amundi1 reviewed a risk management method based on the dynamic core-satellite approach that we apply to the…
Developed country debt default sends shivers through the system
What would be the repercussions of a developed country defaulting on its debt?
In-house changes: the use of in-house lawyers
The role of in-house lawyers in hedge fund management companies is changing all the time. Hedge Funds Reviewtalks to general counsel about their jobs.
UPDATE: Ceiops task force OKs liquidity premium
An industry task force appointed by the Committee of European Insurers and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (Ceiops) has recommended to the European Commission that an extra liquidity premium be included in the discount rate of liabilities used in the…
Hedge funds will return to energy markets in H2
Energy hedge fund investors will return to the market in the second half of the year, as these investment managers see prices rise towards the end of 2010, say analysts.
Fund managers becoming bullish on hedge funds
Fund managers have largely bullish views on hedge fund investments over the next five years in a sign that confidence is returning to the market.
Profile: K. Geert Rouwenhorst
K. Geert Rouwenhorst, professor of finance and deputy director of the International Center for Finance at Yale, talks to Pauline McCallion about the game-changing impact of his commodities research and how it spurred his hedge fund launch
