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Last week, the temporary ban on short selling US financial stocks implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission came to an end, greeted by a general consensus that it added to mark
Hedge funds declined by an average of 5.94 per cent in September, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by Fairfield, Iowa-based BarclayHedge, bringing the index’s decline sin
International derivatives exchange Eurex has signed an agreement with Investment Property Databank to license its European property indices to serve as underlying data sets for futures on
In a project bringing together some of the world’s most prominent hedge fund and financial markets bodies, five groups representing managers and regulators have pooled their work on sound
The credit crunch and its aftershocks may be wreaking havoc in the global financial markets and institutions around the world may be tottering, but for at least for now the fund services industry i
Recent years have seen an increasing number of specialist funds launched in Jersey, including property, private equity and hedge funds as well as so-called ‘alternative alternatives’.
The rising price of oil and the emergence of sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf region have focused attention on the growing financial strength of the region and on its rapid emergence as a marke
At a time when alternative funds are being blamed in some quarters for exacerbating the financial industry crisis, if not necessarily actually provoking it, and politicians throughout the world are
Fund managers are increasingly looking to establish a physical presence in offshore jurisdictions, either to optimise tax efficiencies for their funds and management companies or simply because a l
Just months after the launch of Jersey’s Unregulated Funds regime, there is already evidence that an appetite is starting to develop for this new category of funds, particularly from large pension
