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User Contributed News

Agecroft Partners wins Hedgeweek 2013 Hedge Fund Third Party Marketer of the Year

Agecroft Partners, a hedge fund consultant and third party marketer has won the Hedgeweek 2013 Award for Third Party Marketer of the Year. Hedgeweek’s 41,000 subscribers: institutional investors, wealth managers, hedge fund managers, and industry professionals, voted on the Awards. […]

ProTrak International Announces a New Release of Their Popular CRM System

ProTrak International today announced a new upgrade to their popular CRM platform for Investment Managers, Hedge Funds, FoHFs, Family Offices and Private Equity firms. With ProTrak Advantage 9.0, clients will now realize enhanced internal communication effectiveness using the new e-mail […]

The Morning Brief: Are Things Looking Up for Managed Futures? Check Out the Latest Numbers

Institutional Investor’s Alpha – The average CTA eked out a 0.09 percent gain in February, bringing the total return for the first two months to 1.56 percent, according to Newedge’s Alternative Investment Solutions Group, part of Newedge’s Prime Clearing Services. Graham […]

Learn it: Form PF Filings

Hedge fund service provider NorthPoint, has completed the February 2013 round of Form PF submissions for a broad range of hedge fund and asset management clients. “Form PF is an exercise for which it definitely pays to ‘measure twice and […]

DCF Expands Sell-Side Advisory Reach With Afilliates in MI, NY and TX

Decosimo Corporate Finance, LLC (“DCF”), an investment banking firm affiliated with the 9-office regional accounting and business advisory firm Decosimo, announced today that the firm is continuing to expand its sell-side advisory reach by adding affiliates in Michigan, New York […]

Imagine Software Expands Nordic Presence with Signing of Asymmetric Asset Management

Imagine Software, a leading provider of real-time portfolio and risk management solutions worldwide, today announced that Asymmetric Asset Management selected its award-winning Imagine Trading System. The Nordic-focused hedge fund follows a global macro strategy, with a long/short opportunistic overlay, and […]

Cayman Islands: hedge funds and offshore finance

The success of the Cayman fund regulations are based on the innovation, creativity and forethought of the local legal and structuring talents more than a decade ago. Very quickly, the Cayman hedge fund has become the default model for an […]

QuantHouse Leverages BT to Expand Asian Distribution Capabilities

QuantHouse, S&P Capital IQ’s Real Time operation and the global provider of next generation trading solutions, is expanding its core services to Asia by teaming-up with BT. QuantHouse will be using BT Radianz services to distribute its low-latency European and American […]

Background: What drives hedge funds to Florida

User Contributed News – Many investment strategies make sense only if they are held over a full investment cycle, but the challenge professional asset managers have is that psychology often weakens the investors’ conviction when volatility kicks in. Drawdowns have become […]

Average hedge fund fee significantly lower than reported

User Contributed News – Hedge fund industry assets are up slightly from their peak in the 3rd quarter of 2008; however the average fee paid on industry assets has declined much more than reported in industry surveys. These surveys typically show that […]

Inflection Strategic Opportunities Fund Posts 18.42% Net Return For 2012, Outperforms Benchmark Indices

Inflection Management Inc. today announced that the Inflection Strategic Opportunities Fund (“Inflection” or the “Fund”) delivered a net return of 1.58% in December 2012 and 18.42% for 2012, outperforming the Fund’s benchmark indices for both periods. “December capped a very […]

I.A. Englander’s Prime Services Division Selects Spotlight Financial Marketing for PR and Marketing Communications

Spotlight Financial Marketing (Spotlight), a full-service marketing communications firm focused exclusively on the financial services and technology sector, today announced that Israel A. Englander & Co. LLC (IAE) Prime Services division has selected Spotlight to provide public relations and marketing […]