Asset management
Telent spotting
A manager's long-only track record may not be enough to go by when it comes to managing long/short hedge funds. So what are the key things you should be looking out for?
US lags behind European hedge funds' performance
msci indices show us outperformed by europe and japan funds
Going long in Russia
Market is benefiting from a relative insulation from the impact of a global double-dip recession.
RiskMetrics gives 'full risk transparency' to Arden FoF
Fund of funds uses data hub to increase risk disclosure
Gartmore plans retail fund of hedge fund for early 2003
MORE HEDGE PLANS IN THE PIPELINE FOLLOWING RIVERVIEW ACQUISITION
Build in or buy out?
Is it more cost-effective for companies to buy available systems from vendors or to develop and deploy their own energy trading and risk management solutions? Bob Bridger of Vedaris looks into the dilemma faced by many companies
Getting protected
Insurance premiums may have rocketed for power companies over the past year but new ‘dual-trigger’ insurance products could still be an efficient way of transferring price risk. James Ockenden reports
Trouble from above
Pension funds
RMS publishes daily weather derivatives data
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based provider of software for the management of natural hazard risks, has begun publishing daily weather market price data on the internet.
Hedge funds take root in retail sector
Despite the regulations enforced on hedge funds by the FSA, some of the biggest groups are based in the capital. With an increasing number of funds being launched, advisers have even more opportunities to widen their clientele