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Sydney-based St Helens Capital, which has run Australian long/short equity hedge fund strategy programmes since January 2002, has rebranded as Lanterne Strategic Investors.
The funds of hedge funds industry shrank a further 13.5 per cent in the first half of 2009, with the previous freefall broken by relatively strong positive performance of 5.12 per cent
Deutsche Börse and Eurex have published a white paper containing a blueprint for reducing systemic risk in the global derivatives market.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Technical Committee has published a final report recommending regulatory actions to assist financial market regulators in intro
The S&P GSCI declined 2.37 per cent in August led by weakness in the energy sector, according to Standard & Poor’s.
The S&P GSCI Energy Index declined 3.81 per cent in August, reducing the S&P GSCI year-to-date gain to 4.50 per cent.
However, the S&P GSCI Enhanced Index is up 12.39 per cent year-to-date through August. The S&P GSCI Enhanced Index applies certain dynamic and seasonal rolling rules to specific commodity components of the S&P GSCI in order to lessen the impact of roll return.
‘The superior 2009 year-to-date performance of the S&P GSCI Enhanced Index is reflective
Hedge fund manager Och-Ziff is set to start earning performance fees again across its USD21.7bn of funds.
Trading volumes for NYSE Euronext’s global cash equities and derivatives exchanges rebounded in August with European cash and derivatives volume up 5.3 per cent and 15.9 per cent respec
Long/short equity hedge funds returned a positive performance in August mainly as a result of the continued uptrend in equity markets, according to Jordan Drachman, head of research for
Linedata Services, a financial software provider, has expanded its partnership with Omgeo to further streamline the post-trade process.
