GLG Partners Inc continues to believe that the overall exposure of the GLG Funds and its other clients’ exposure to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (‘LBHI’) and its subsidiaries, including Lehman Brot
The next 12 to 18 months will be pivotal for the long-term trends in the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), says Fiona Le Poidevin, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance… 22 July 2013 was the ‘deadline’ for
A new trading record of 17 million contracts was set by international derivatives exchange Eurex on January 22, beating the previous mark of 15.5 million contracts from June 6 last year, a
Patrick Moonen (pictured), Senior Strategist Multi Asset at ING Investment Management (ING IM), on European equities… It’s not clear whether a consistent positive relation exists between the average temperature on European beaches and market performance, but since the start of the
Hedge fund industry body the Managed Funds Association has called on the US authorities to put more resources into regulatory action against market manipulation, and especially to bolster
RBC Capital Markets has reported provisional figures indicating that the RBC Hedge 250 Index had a net return of 0.50 per cent in December, bringing the full-year return of the investible
Wasn’t it Elvis Presley who sang, "We can’t go on together with suspicious minds?" Perhaps management at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would do well to listen to these l
Hedge fund data provider Hedgefund.net has reported a spike in the number of funds removed from its live database last month as a result of liquidation, failure to report performance or th
Polina Kurdyavko (pictured), Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at BlueBay Asset Management, on the changing dynamics of emerging markets and where opportunities can be found in EM corporates… While emerging market dynamics are changing and are not as universally positive
Hedge funds are seeing less activity from the competing proprietary trading desks of investment banks, making it easier for them to capitalise on i
