The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished up 0.42 per cent in May with six of the 10 sub strategies recording positive returns.   Event driven led the way with a return of 2.27 per cent followed by

The hedge fund industry posted an inflow of USD15.7 billion (0.9% of assets) in March 2011, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. The inflow marks the third straight as well as the seventh in eight months. Industry assets rose

A rise in interest rates is not the answer to rising inflation warns Lawrence Galitz of ACF Consultants, after UK Chancellor George Osborne predicted in his ‘Budget for Growth’ that inflation will rise to 5% this year before dropping to

A few days after the initial shock of the enormous problems facing Knight Capital began to subside, only months after the Facebook IPO and its subsequent fall-out, TABB Group decided to measure the institutional community’s confidence in US equity market

Hedge fund IT spending in North America is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 4.4% (USD231 million) from 2009 to 2014, with Asia estimated to grow the fastest at 7.2% (USD36 million), according to a new report,

In the wake of inflationary pressure, the on-going loosening by China of its monetary policy is likely to be a key catalyst in ensuring the outperformance of emerging market equities compared to developed markets. However, with the crisis in the

Execution LLC, an agency-only broker, has launched an options trading platform. The new offering is led by John Margolis who joined Execution in May 2009 from Thomson Financial where he had a 20-year career in technology and trading.   The

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has reversed recent trends by becoming the only offshore financial centre to have its rating boosted in the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI).   The improvement comes against a backdrop of decline among all