Feature/Technology
Challenges abound in 2009
Everyone agrees that 2009 will be a challenge. Just how different the financial markets and overall environment will be for hedge funds is an open question. Some of the leading figures in the industry tell Hedge Funds Review reporters what they foresee
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Documentation Risk
Electronic platforms: Riding out the storm
Electronic platforms
The drive for automation
Trading technology
The final frontier
Single-dealer platforms
Doug Long
The business development head at structured finance software vendor Principia talks to Matthew Attwood about what it will take to restore investor appetite for structured products
Classifica italiana
Life & Pensions Rankings Italy 2008
Model behaviour
Sponsored Roundtable
Out of the comfort zone
Operational stress
Seeking security
Cover story
Taming nature with models
Catastrophe risk
Hedge funds fill gap left by lack of bank-based trade financing
As avenues of traditional trade finance have dried up as a consequence of the banking crisis, hedge funds have seen an opportunity. Jamie Wynn-Williams reports
Lawmakers take aim at CDS market
Regulators have been threatening the credit derivatives market with draconian new legislation in a bid to curb practices that supposedly exacerbated the current turmoil. But the lawmakers' belligerent comments are somewhat akin to closing the windows…
Managing a crisis
Technology
Some of life's key lessons
Sponsored Roundtable
ETRM evolution
As energy trading and risk management systems become increasingly sophisticated, Rana Basu of TradeCapture looks at what users need to consider as they progress from implementing and using the most basic to the most complex systems
Hedge fund regimes come under closer scrutiny as industry matures and expands
administration and regulation
A Proactive approach
Portfolio reconciliation