+ information request There has been a lot of comment in the media about the responsibilities and duties of hedge and alternative investment fund directors. Although the topic had been quite a high profile for several years, the Weavering judgement
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged two multi-billion dollar hedge fund advisory firms as well as seven fund managers and analysts involved in a USD78 million insider trading scheme based on nonpublic information about Dell’s quarterly earnings and
Beaumont Advisors Limited has launched a new business offering hedge fund operational due diligence services. Seasoned hedge fund industry veterans, Lori Barton and Gillian Scott (pictured) who have collectively performed over 800 due diligence assignments, are leading Beaumont’s hedge fund
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained a court order to freeze the assets of a Georgia-based investment adviser who has apparently gone into hiding after orchestrating a USD40m investment fraud. The SEC alleges that Aubrey Lee Price raised money
Credit funds face growing risk of investor redemption, amid uncertainty over the Federal Reserve's plan for tapering and disappointing returns as credit performance drivers see their role diminish, according to Fitch. A new report also finds that repricing risk, which
Andrew Clark (pictured), chief index strategist for Thomson Reuters Indices and Lipper, draws on second-order variability analysis to predict which US sectors will decorrelate first, assuming the current market rally has legs… In a recent Reuters article, Bill O’Neill of
Azad Zangana (pictured), European Economist at Schroders, on the ECB’s decision to cut interest rates to a record low… The European Central Bank has cut its main policy rate for the first time since December 2011, taking the refinancing rate
Alcova Asset Management has selected Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services to provide a full range of administrative and middle-office outsourcing services to its quantitatively driven, equity market-neutral fund. The mandate from the UK-headquartered quantitative hedge fund manager is the latest
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group ended 2011 with a turnover of approximately 2.8 billion contracts, compared with 2.64 billion in 2010. The total volume for 2011 splits into 2.04 billion contracts traded at Eurex Exchange (2010: 1.9 billion)
Hong Kong-based DragonBack Capital Limited, the former multi-strategy hedge fund manager that reinvented itself last year as a hedge fund platform, has onboarded Double Haven reported
