ISO 9001 is increasingly providing funds of hedge funds with the framework to scale their business, according to H.D. Management. H.D.
The Swiss hedge fund industry is well positioned but the implications of the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers are still unclear, the Swiss Funds Association says. At an SFA media conference, Hans-Jörg Baumann, chairman of the Alternative Investment Council
PricewaterhouseCoopers summarises its recent paper entitled the Regulation and Distribution of Hedge Funds in Europe: Changes and Challenges.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a set of principles regarding cross-border supervisory cooperation developed by its technical committee’s task force on supervisory cooperation. These principles, accompanied by a report and sample memorandum of understanding, set out how
The UK’s Financial Services Authority has fined JPMorgan Securities GBP33.32m for failing to protect client money by segregating it appropriately. Under the FSA’s client money rules, firms are required to keep client money separate from the firm’s money in segregated
Hedgeweek is pleased to announce the launch of a new free-to-access global jobs section on its website. The n
The Edhec-Risk Institute believes the unilateral measures taken by Chancellor Merkel on the sovereign debt markets, both on the short selling of sovereign bonds and credit default swaps, are counterproductive, inconsistent and liable to hinder European growth. It has made
KRM22, a technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets, has partnered with deltaconX, a provider of regulatory reporting services for European financial-, energy- and commodity trading organisations. The deltaconX SaaS-based service, which will be
