By Mark Mannion, head of UBS Fund Services, Ireland The last few years have been a booming period for the administration of alternative vehicles in Dublin.
Paulson & Co is demonstrating its fidelity to traditional hedge fund principles by taking a “calculated” risk in examining opportunities in the
By Julian Korek, CEO and Founding Member of Kinetic Partners, the global professional services firm – The last 12 months has been another year of change for the financial services industry. We at Kinetic Partners recently surveyed 300 senior executives in
Early estimates indicate the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index will post positive performance of 0.22 per cent in August, based on 70 per cent of assets in the index reporting. This brings year-to-date performance to 2.46 per cent.
Strategic Financial Solutions, the company that created the PerTrac financial suite – which includes the PerTrac Desktop Analytical Platform, PerTra
Asia has been coming out of a fairly devastating economic crisis that began in 1997 and lasted until at least 2002.
Gottex Fund Management, an alternative asset management group, had positive cash earnings for the six months ended 30 June 2010, but its financial performance was impacted by a reduction in the asset base and a delay in the return of
Bloomberg has launched Enterprise Access Point, an online Open Data and Linked Data Platform that provides normalised reference, pricing, regulatory and historical datasets for Bloomberg Data License clients. Available through the new website, clients can now browse quality data online,
After four straight months of gains, managed futures lost 1.50% in October according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date, the Index is down 2.30%. “A revival of animal spirits sparked by an improving economic picture and the
