Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

Jeff Taylor, the founder and chairman of Monster, the Internet- based recruitment company that has the largest job-posting traffic volume on the globe, is a big believer in the ability of technologyto reshape the world. The advertising agency veteran dreamed […]

In order to understand investing during the rising portion of the interest rate cycle, let’s look at the last major upswing in rates. Consider the period beginning Sept. 30, 1998, and continuing to the end of December 1999. This 15-month […]

Much of the coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) year-long fact finding investigation into hedge funds created fear that the SEC’S hedge fund roundtable held in May would be amandate for greater regulation. But what at one point […]

ALBATROSS FLIES AGAIN The saga involving the manipulation of the New York Futures Exchange’s (Nyfe) now de-listed Pacific Stock Exchange Technology Index options, which resulted in the default of longtime futures commission merchant Klein & Co., continues as a federal […]

Jean-Jacques Chenier uses most of the same indicators as a systematic trend following manager that he did as a discretionary manager but has found that systematizing the approach added much neededdiscipline, allowing him to exploit the inefficiencies of the currency […]

Mark Rosenberg has been earning his investors money trading alternative investment strategies for two decades. Now he says these markets and the managers who trade them are about to go mainstream,much like stocks did in the late 19th century when […]

Opinions of trading futures are split between those on the inside who use them and those on the outside who fear them. For security futures to deliver on their highly touted potential asrevolutionary products, prospective users must understand the purpose […]

China’s new venture capital regulations provide limited improvements for investors As year two of China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) membership rolls on, China continues to open its financial services sector to foreign investors. On January 30, 2003 the Ministry of […]

As equities set off on their stealth rally this spring, secondary stock offerings and convertibles were finding new friends among investors. Global equity capital markets may be in their worst state in decades, but bankers can still always find cause […]

For a number of years, the preeminent Silicon Valley law firm Venture Law Group (VLG) represented the American Basketball Leabgue, competitor to the professional women’s basketball league the WNBA,because it was a fun thing to do. One thing VLG lawyers […]

Before you, or your client jump in bed with a venture capitalist, it’s best to know the ground rules. The growing significance of the venture capital industry means that accountants need to have a strong appreciation of the issues arising […]

Lance Gersbach was tragically killed in the Solomon Islands on 18 May this year while working as the business manager/accountant at the Atoifi Hospital on the island of Malaita. He was admitted as a CA in the 1970s while working […]