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AIMA To Mobilise Hedge Fund Industry On EC Directive

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), announced plans to mobilise the world’s hedge fund industry on the European Commission’s draft directive for Alternative Investment Fund Managers. “There are provisions in this directive with potentially serious […]

Brevan Howard Tops Alpha’s List of Best 50 Hedge Funds in Europe

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Alpha Magazine unveiled the 2009 Europe Hedge Fund top 50, showing that that Europe was not immune to investor angst over hedge funds. A wave of investor withdrawals shapes the magazine’s annual ranking of the […]

Barclay Hedge Fund Rankings Rate Tranen #1 in Fixed Income Asset Backed Lending

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – British Virgin Islands based hedge fund manager Tranen Capital took the lead in the Fixed Income – Asset-Backed Lending category for March 2009 with a return of 2.49%. In addition to the March performance, the […]

MENA Equity Fund Launch

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager, Majid Al Futtaim Asset Management, is launching its first Middle East and North Africa (MENA) equity fund, the Luxembourg domiciled ‘Elite MENA Equity Fund’. Investors can invest alongside the family office of […]

The Change Imperative for Hedge Fund Reporting: Webinar

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Principal at Rothstein Kass, Charles F. Plaveczky will be speaking at a webinar for hedge fund managers interested in meeting the growing demands for increased reporting transparency and control, according to fund manager and host […]

S&P Research Arm Bought By Hedge Fund Provider

  West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund research provider, Guidepoint Global, LLC, has acquired tech and media company, Vista Research, Inc. from Standard & Poor’s. “In the current economic climate, investors and business decision makers are increasingly seeking on-demand […]

Tel Aviv Conference to Serve as International Economic Collaboration Platform

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The organizing committee of The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is to host more than 500 of the leading securities regulators and economic experts from more than 65 countries at this year’s conference in […]

Hedge Fund Performance for April 2009

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – In a preliminary hedge fund performance report for April 2009 and asset flows through March, Morningstar reported the largest one month-return since January 2006—bringing hedge fund returns into positive territory for 2009. "Over the last […]

Stanford Completes Second Phase of Hedge Fund Case Study

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The second phase of a hedge fund business model case study has been finalized by the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. GlobeOp is the first hedge fund administrator to be featured in a case […]

Hedge Fund Industry Expert Hired to Run Distressed Mortgage Securities Tool

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – LoanInsights, a San Francisco-based financial services and technology company, has hired James Sias as Director of Business Development. Sias will be responsible for working with banks, hedge funds and US government entities to help them […]

Hedge Funds & The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Leading alternative investment firms are adopting best practices for their funds with an eye to the Sarbanes-Oxley act*, hedge fund provider, TKS Solutions said in an announcement, also launching a new system specifically designed for […]

Hedge Funds & ‘Open Source Intelligence’

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge funds, private equity firms are using “political intelligence” to monitor tax reform, SEC registration, TARP, TALF and PPIPs, according to the OSINT Group, a boutique advisory firm based in Washington specializing in “open source […]