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In the shadows
Booming over-the-counter derivatives markets may be generating huge revenues for dealers, but they are also casting a worrying shadow over trading book profits in the form of counterparty credit risk. Are contingent credit default swaps the answer?
EFG Private Bank - June 2007
While structuring products may once have been the preserve of large asset management houses, private banks are starting to open their expertise in bespoke structuring to the outside world, as Rasik Ahuja, head of EFG Private Bank’s active advisory.
On FASB, hedge funds and fair value...
If you thought all acronyms were born equal, Grant Thronton's Michael Patanella begs to differ. He explains why one called FAS 157 could help managers show why their fund isn't one of the pack, either, when it comes to valuations
The charge of the lite brigade
With 130/30 funds predicted by some to pull in $1trn in five years and attracting allocators like CalPERS, Phyllis Feinberg went to see who was offering them, and if hedge fund managers should be worried...
Home ground disadvantage
Christopher Donoho and Marc Gottridge of Lovells discuss whether US Bankruptcy Court 'avoidance' powers bring up more risks for investors in, and prime brokers to, hedge funds
All software systems are Go! as Asia and Japan get algorithmically well connected
Some Asian exchanges have been less well equipped to handle algos, writes David Walker. Now, that is all changing - to hedge funds' delight...