Hedge Fund Regulation
Friday, 13 March 2009 | 9:37 am
With the meltdown in financial markets and the near collapse of the banking system last year, hedge funds have come under increasing regulatory scrutiny. Whether or not this is justified is another matter. There is certainly justification for more scrutiny and more useful regulation with the emphasis on the useful. Unfortunately the trend has
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Why Investors Are Likely to Return to Hedge Funds
Wednesday, 11 March 2009 | 9:56 am
Equity and credit markets continue to fall. Investors have shifted their allocation into cash and government bonds. Correlations between assets is not 1. In fact, correlations between hedge funds and other asset classes such as equity have fallen from 95% in 2006 / mid 2008 to 70% currently. Moving allocations into a risk free asset
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Hedge Funds: Reasons to Love Them, Reasons to Hate Them:
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 | 8:08 am
The hedge fund industry has come under a lot of fire in the last 12 months. They have been blamed for falling markets, failing banks, rising costs of credit, bad weather, you name it. But while it is easy to target an industry where a hedge fund manager can earn millions in a year, what
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Hedge Fund Performance Feb 2009
Monday, 09 March 2009 | 4:01 pm
February was another difficult month for hedge funds. If anyone thought 2009 would be an easier year for hedge funds, think again. Hedge funds lost 0.51% in February, compounding January’s 0.09% loss for a year to date loss of 0.60%, according to the HFRI Index. Fund of funds managed a smaller loss of 0.31% which
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Hedge Funds Villains? Regulators Please Take Note.
Friday, 06 March 2009 | 9:52 am
Hedge funds have had all sorts of bad press. In the past week, just speaking to members of the general public, investors, even hedge fund managers, I was shocked at the level of resentment directed at the industry and in the case of hedge fund managers, even some degree of penitence. How strange. In
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