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Hedge Fund Managers Look to Asia for New Investment

December 10, 2012

With investment markets and institutional balance sheets on shaky ground in North America and Europe, hedge fund mangers are struggling to grow their assets under management in conventional markets. Institutions are looking for liquidity to meet cash obligations as well as reduce risk heading into what appears to be highly volatile market conditions. The search […]

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Hedge Fund Investors Head for the Exits

December 3, 2012

Those in the industry have come to appreciate the volatility in hedge fund investment, particularly the “moodiness” of investors. One month hedge funds are the answer to low fixed income yields, the next month they are an alternative investment class with potentially harmful tax consequences. While the core investors in hedge funds have remained committed, […]

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European Regulators Target Hedge Funds with Risky Rules

November 26, 2012

In what is becoming a fairly predictable trend, leading financial regulators are considering tightening regulations to limit global financial risk. However, recently proposed rules coming from the European Union may actually have a destabilizing impact on financial markets, despite the intention of the rules to decrease the risk that any specific institution may become too […]

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The Value of Hedge Fund Regulations Questioned

November 19, 2012

After the 2008 stock market collapse, hedge funds faced increased oversight and regulation by financial authorities around the world. This not unexpected, as hedge funds can be amongst the riskiest investment classes in the market, though this is certainly not always true. Nonetheless, the industry as a whole was painted by the same brush, causing […]

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Small Hedge Funds Lead the Industry

November 12, 2012

The debate around what comprises the “secret sauce” of hedge fund investing was ramped up to another level with the recent release of a PerTrac software study. As reported in the Financial Times, the controversial study suggested that small hedge funds, generally with less than $100 million in assets, outperformed both mid sized and large […]

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Hedge Funds see a Return of the Institutional Investor

November 5, 2012

Hedge funds have seen a significant change in their investor base in the last year as wealthy individual investors exit the asset class, according to a recent Reuters article, no longer seeing the same return potential in the lower risk strategies being executed by hedge funds today. The industry is beginning a transition back to its roots […]

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Private Equity Firms a Source of Competition for Hedge Funds?

October 29, 2012

According to a recent Wall Street Journal “Deal Journal” piece, the Chinese private equity firm SAIF Partners is considering an expansion into the hedge fund business. Since the firm has been traditionally focused on growth capital type deals in the private equity space, many question whether the jump into the hedge fund space is a […]

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