Hedge Funds Review/News
Thin liquidity makes human touch vital – credit buy-siders
Reliance on e-trading risks being 'left out in the cold' when markets dry up
Buy side: central clearing 'a mess' as sell-side dialogue hits 'fever pitch'
Asset managers want to see futurisation of swaps get off the ground in Europe
Investors redeem risky China hedge fund managers
Conservative managers have become more attractive for investors
AIFMD passport denial will impact Asian managers most
Hedge fund industry decries Esma's shutting of door on most offshore funds
Credit Suisse pulls out of forex prime brokerage
Swiss dealer the latest to exit the business
FCA expects notification of AIFMD leverage breaches
But admits regulation is ‘silent' on notification obligations
AHL, ISAM unmoved by liquidity concerns
Quant hedge funds revamp algorithms since crisis, soothing liquidity woes
ISAM made a killing on porcine virus trade
CTA unflapped by Greece and unimpressed by regulatory uncertainty in Chinese futures
DTCC's Abel flags three hurdles to US shift to T+2
Abel gives his thoughts on T+2 ISC's white paper and proposed timeline
Investors want to know logic behind machine learning
Big data tools a hard sell without clear explanations, says Winton researcher
Trade repository data quality to impact Mifir and Emir review
Regulators bemoan poor data quality from trade repositories impacts policy implementation
Hedge fund managers still human, research finds
Funds fall victim to IPO hype and behavioural biases affecting traders
AHL spies futures in China rebar, iron ore and polymers
Hedge fund puts algorithms to work in new liquid futures and OTC markets
Prime of primes reduce reliance on prime brokers
Forex prime brokers have reduced their services after Swiss franc move
FCA survey finds high levels of leverage in hedge fund sector
Gross notional exposure to interest rate and forex derivatives on the rise
Esma's proposed AIF segregation will destroy liquidity
Tri-party collateral management "impossible" under AIFMD guidelines
European Repo Council chief fears ‘meltdown of G20 dream’
Concerns heard as repo industry considers voluntary adoption of clearing
Finma distribution rules confuse hedge funds
Small foreign asset managers suspected of breaching Swiss regulations
Passive investment will hurt economic growth, Brandes says
Asset management veteran defends value investing as tried-and-tested strategy
Euroclear and Clearstream granted time to agree joint road map
Icma ERC continues to push for plans to improve Bridge settlement times
Esma likely to extend AIFMD passport to third countries
Withdrawal of national private placement regimes could follow in 2018
Esma delays review of Mifid II standards until September
Fund industry 'squeezed' for time
Asian fund specialist Mirae sets out UK expansion plans
Mirae hires new sales director and plans to bring new funds to UK
Capital markets in Japan unconvinced of big data’s potential
Firms discuss ways to make better use of data glut