Hedge Funds Review - March 2015
Articles in this issue
Weavering's Peterson jailed for $500m swaps fraud
Due diligence should have raised investors’ suspicions
Ownership data key to picking top fund managers, says Novus
Position sizing manager's most important quality, says study
Risk assessment warning for medium-term investment horizons
Such hedge funds cannot be assessed just by data
Equity derivatives in scope for FTT, say experts
But broad-based European tax unlikely to gain quick traction
Northill: bubble building for direct lending strategies
Cat bonds, high yield, US distressed, infrastructure risky too
SEC guidelines on insider trading cases under fire
Appeals court reins in SEC over insider trading
Jury out on hedge fund take-up of Shanghai-HK Stock Connect
Funds prefer synthetic exposure over cash equities to access China
SEC report reveals chinks in managers' cyber defences
Broker-dealers better prepared than investment advisers
Volatility and correlation don’t measure what you think
Two ubiquitous risk analytics are easily and often misunderstood
Switching from UK GAAP unlikely to boost hedge fund profits
Accountants caution UK managers seeking IFRS tax arbitrage
Basel III transforming securities lending market
New entrants respond to challenges facing primes and lenders
US and UK insider trading regulators diverge
Courts rein in SEC while FCA probes investors' poor safeguards
Call for user-owned utilities to lower central clearing cost
But monopoly or duopoly inefficient, BNY Mellon says
Managed futures redemptions slow in H2 2014
Strategy generated more in 2014 than last three years combined
Changing face of stock-lending and repo
New entrants eyeing opportunities
