Asset management
Difficulties with deficits
Pension deficits have rocketed, with slumping equity markets decimating asset portfolios. Has this made bulk purchase annuity solutions more attractive or are the costs too punitive? Ryan Davidson reports
The perfect match
Currency risk
Getting the green light
Regulator Q&A
Optimising through optimism
Editorial Roundtable
A creditable spread
Credit
Pensions before dividends, UK regulator orders
The UK Pensions Regulator has warned companies they should not continue paying shareholder dividends at the expense of their pension schemes.
Investable indexes - December 2008
Credit Suisse /Tremont Hedge Fund Index - Dow Jones Hedge Fund Benchmarks - Frontier Capital Multi-Asset Platform Fund - Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index - HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index - Lyxor Global hedge Fund Index
Multi-strategy model struggles as investor confidence wanes
Investor confidence in multi-strategy funds is wavering. Hedge Funds Review talks to managers to find out how they think the strategy will perform in 2009.
Canada re-thinks strategy
Canada's hedge fund industry was initially built on the foundation of the country's resources. This strategy worked during the commodities bull run but has now run into problems. US Editor Kris Devasabai looks the prospects and challenges for Canada's…
Prime brokers look outside Canada
Faced with a competitive and contracting domestic market, Canadian prime brokers are looking to the international markets for growth.
CF Carbon Fund: CF Partners
Carbon trading set to yield high returns
Passage to India proves difficult
Hedge funds are struggling to break into the Indian market. While many believe the dramatic fall in the Bombay Stock Exchange in 2008 will push more investors towards hedge funds, significant obstacles block their way, reports Stephen Quigley
Hedge fund replication products
In 2007 an EDHEC study on passive hedge fund replication1 highlighted the inability of existing products to meet investors' needs for hedge fund replication. The factor replication approach fails to deliver accurate out-of-sample replication because of…
Smaller, leaner hedge fund industry expected to emerge in 2009
Do you expect consolidation and convergence of the hedge fund industry over the next 12-18 months?'
Hope for increased use of derivatives exchanges by hedge funds
While derivatives may be going through a dodgy patch with regulators and the public, the exchanges that trade these instruments expect hedge funds to increase their use of these markets.
Column: Nick Chamie
A huge rise in the funding needs of developed nations will hurt emerging markets
Insurance debt: Don't take a tumble
Holders of bonds from the insurance sector should prepare themselves for a rough ride in 2009. Lingering concerns over the exposure of certain names to toxic structured credit assets and the difficulty of raising more debt in the current environment are…
Risk-free isn't what it used to be
Editor's letter