Hedge fund industry up 9.41 per cent in first half of 2009
Following best performance in nearly a decade in May, the hedge fund industry ended the second quarter in a more muted fashion, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index posting a gai
Following best performance in nearly a decade in May, the hedge fund industry ended the second quarter in a more muted fashion, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index posting a gai

The introduction of a ban on short-selling by several European countries will increase the risk of a full-blown recession, says Andrew Shrimpton of Kinetic Partners… The banning by France, Italy, Belgium and Spain of the short-selling of financial stocks for
Société Générale Securities Services is broadening its clearing offer to include new multilateral trading facilities: BATS Europe, NYSE Arca and Nasdaq OMX E
Strategic Risk Management, the Monaco-based hedge fund manager headed by Jon Wood that spun out of UBS two years ago, has reportedly seen its SRM G
Sabre Fund Management has launched a new quantitative futures strategy – the Sabre Adaptive Trading Fund.
International law firm Eversheds has advised PSource Structured Debt on USD24m of credit facilities with the Bank of Scotland consisting of an amortising term facility and overdraft.
Offshore legal, fiduciary and administration service provider Appleby is merging with Dickinson Cruickshank, the largest law firm in the Isle of Man.
Standard & Poor’s has launched the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Covered Call Index, an index that will offer investors exposure to crude oil commodity price returns at lower levels of vol

Hedge funds gained 1.41 per cent in June, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is now up 3.76 per cent in 2014. “As investor’s shrugged off a downward revision of first quarter GDP
Stock market volatility dropped for a fourth consecutive month in May to 28.92 per cent, according to Edhec Business School.