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High-paying hedge fund swoops on Credit Suisse derivatives chief
EFC – Mathias Berenger, managing director and head of European vanilla options trading at Credit Suisse has left to join high-paying hedge fund Capula Investment Management. Berenger, a derivatives trading veteran who has been in the sector since 1996, joined […]
Fund of hedge funds face fight for cash with consultants
Reuters – Funds that invest in a range of hedge funds are facing a battle to win new business, as the same consultants they court to win money from pension firms are grabbing a chunk of an industry that was […]
Survey: 81% Of Endowments & Foundations Planning Hedge Fund Allocations In 2014
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Boston-based investment consulting firm’s NEPC’s Q1 survey, which measures endowment and foundation confidence and sentiment related to the economy, investing and market performance, has released its results. 81% of E&Fs indicated they are planning to allocate the […]
Hedge Connection’s Global Fund Forum 2014 Presents Charity Casino Night
Atlantic City, NJ – Hedge Connection, the premier patented hedge fund marketing platform in the alternative investment industry, will host a special charity Casino Night on the first evening of the Global Fund Forum 2014 set for June 10 to […]
Virtus Investment Partners Selects SS&C for Middle- and Back- Office Services
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSNC), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced that Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS) has chosen SS&C to provide middle- and back-office services for approximately $20 billion of separately managed, […]
SEC Chair: 1,800 Hedge Fund Advisers Registered With SEC
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – SEC Chairman Chair Mary Jo White said that hedge fund and private equity fund managers have been charging improper fees to portfolio companies or the funds they manage. “Since the effective date of the Dodd-Frank Act, approximately […]
Icahn, Ackman may team up on activist investments: report
Reuters – Carl Icahn and William Ackman, who clashed on their views about nutrition company Herbalife Ltd., could team up on activist investments in future, The Wall Street Journal reported. Ackman and Icahn’s dislike of each other is well known in financial circles. Some of […]
Hedge Fund Regulation: AIFMD: Are you ready?
AIFMD is an issue that is growing in importance as we approach July 22nd, the date by which Alternative Investment Fund Managers will have to be compliant with the new directive. Whether hedge fund managers are in favor of it […]
Exposure to Alternatives: What’s the Right Allocation?
Daily Alts – The liquid-alternatives industry continues to grow dramatically. Net inflows were over $40 billion in 2013 and the growth trend has continued this year. The combination of stretched equity valuations, an uncertain outlook for bonds, and geopolitical turmoil […]
Hedge-Fund Startups Adapt to New Singapore Rules: Southeast Asia
Bloomberg – When Gaurav Bansal’s lawyers told him about Singapore’s tightened hedge-fund rules introduced in August 2012, he faced the prospect of spiraling costs to meet the demands for starting his own fund. The solution was to sign up with […]
Royal Mail float: Government admits hedge funds were favoured
Evening Standard – Hedge funds were among the “priority investors” sold hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in the Royal Mail’s controversial flotation, officials have confirmed. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has repeatedly insisted that the handful of key […]
Alibaba Co-Founder Joe Tsai Linked to Planned Hong Kong Hedge Fund
WSJ – A former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager is preparing to launch a hedge fund in Hong Kong with a co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. as a potential backer, people familiar with the matter said. Andrew Bazarian, […]