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Global Investor names Deutsche Bank “Fund Administrator of the Year”
Deutsche Bank’s expertise in fund administration and sub-custody was recognized by Global Investor, a leading publication for institutional investors, at an awards dinner in London last week. At the Global Investor/ISF Investment Excellence Awards, the Bank was named Fund Administrator […]
TrimTabs and BarclayHedge Report Hedge Fund Inflows Hit Two-Year High of $18.5 Billion in May
BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported that hedge funds took in a net $18.5 billion (1.0% of assets) in May, more than a forty-fold increase from April’s $430 million inflow. The results are based on data from 3,368 funds. “In […]
JOBS ACT Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy
The hedge fund industry is the most competitive industry in the world, where portfolio managers are constantly struggling to identify inefficiencies in the capital markets and quickly take advantage of them before their competitors. The most extreme example of this […]
Hedge Fund Association and Agecroft Partners Announce Hedgeopolis New York
The Hedge Fund Association and Agecroft Partners are teaming up to create one of the top hedge fund conferences in the world. Hedgeopolis New York will be held in New York City at The Metropolitan Club on November 4, 2013. Conference speakers […]
Hedge Fund Pioneer is the Recipient of 2013 Sustainability Achievement Award
Glen Dailey, Managing Director and Head of Prime Brokerage of Jefferies LLC and a hedge fund industry pioneer, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Sustainability Achievement Award by Solar One, the leading think tank for environmental education […]
Fair Value Considerations for BDCs filing an IPO under the JOBS Act
By: Carolyn Bentzien, Valuation Research Corporation – The Spring of 2012 heralded a new and exciting time for investment funds considering blossoming into Business Development Companies (“BDC”). In April 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act was enacted into […]
JOBS ACT to benefit investors – HF not as risky as perceived
It has been recently covered in the media that Mary Jo White, who became SEC chairman on April 10, is pushing to adopt the JOBS ACT without major changes and potentially adding additional investor protections at a later date. While […]
Treasury Announces $8.9 Billion Increase In Small Business Lending By Participants In The Small Business Lending Fund
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released a new report showing that participants receiving capital through the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) boosted lending for the seventh straight quarter. In total, SBLF participants have increased small business lending by […]
Dow Jones State of Anti-Corruption Compliance Survey
The results of the fifth annual survey will be launched today at Dow Jones’ Global Compliance Symposium being held in Washington DC. This year’s survey interviewed compliance professionals from more than 350 companies worldwide. Of the companies represented, 71% stopped […]
Studies Predict Hard Times for Hedge Funds That Don’t Leverage Investor Accounting Technology
The 2012 annual surveys of the hedge fund industry are out, and all of them point to an increasingly competitive business environment for running an alternative investment fund. Management costs continued to rise as investor and regulatory demands on the […]
Why the Cyprus crisis shouldn’t spook US retirees into bonds
American retirees should not be tempted to pile into Treasury bonds too strongly in response to the Cyprus banking crisis, warns the boss of the world’s largest financial advisory firm. The comments from the chief executive of the deVere Group, […]