The past few years have seen booming growth for much of the fi

Three trends in the Asian hedge funds industry should prove to be of particular note to Prime Services providers during 2006. These trends are: the continued growth in assets employed by hedge funds in the Asian space and the number of funds employing them; the increased sophistication of funds both in terms of breadth of activity and complexity of products they require, and finally, the continually changing and challenging regulatory environment unique to the Asian region. Firstly, the growth in assets employed in the region, across all strategies, has been impressive in recent years, rising from USD 16bn in 2000

For longer than most investors and hedge fund managers care to remember, the chief attraction of Latin America has been the kind of political and economic turbulence and market volatility that prov

Investors who traditionally were shy about viewing Latin American investments as muchmore than an opportunistic play are taking a second look.

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.

The time has come for hedge funds in Asia.