Investors
Customer is king
For Ramon Koss picking a good hedge fund for a client can only come after the client fully understands the product
How to snare a big fish
institutional investment
Gartmore growth heads for the stars
While Gartmore may be known best for its star manager Roger Guy and sales head Martin Phipps, it has sought out other stars to boost its team and array of funds
Forex gets naturalized
software
From alpha to gamma
French hedge fund ADI entered the incubation business by launching subsidiary New Alpha Advisors in late 2003. Solomon Teague talks to chief executive Nicholas Gomart
Island of low-cost opportunity
Country focus: malta
Managers warn of derivatives risk
fixed income arbitrage
The income alternative
Aiming for an annual dividend yield of 7% for its investors, Forsyth Alternative Income fund of hedge funds takes a different tack on hedge-fund investing. The fund's manager, Rossen Djounov, explains the philosophy and process behind it
The not-so-great pretender
qualified investor schemes
The French connection
country focus: france
Investors wise up to structured products
collateralised debt
Revisiting hedge funds: the institutional investor's perspective
pension investing
Glacier Re: a wise start-up?
reinsurance
Time for relative returns
performance measurement
Making money from your money
currency overlay
Reopen for business
As GAM reopens some of its multi-fund hedge portfolios to new investors, David Smith reflects on the hedge fund industry, GAM's progress and staggering intake of money in 2004