Strategy
Hedge fund industry performance comes under pressure from market events
research: cluster analysis
Hedge fund finds alternative niche
Niche strategies are the way to go for small companies wishing to launch new hedge funds, according to Dominique Grandchamp a partner in Nara Capital.
Hedge funds keen to attract family office investment
Family offices with substantial assets can often be an attractive investor market for hedge funds. Dealing with these family offices, however, can be very different from coping with the typical institutional investor. Sara Utecht and Jamie Wynn-Williams…
Pooled funds may offer investors good value and diversity
launching internal fohfs
Commodities offer alpha win
commodities
How to survive in a crisis in four easy steps
data security
Market volatility and flight to quality puts gold back in fashion
Physical gold is an extremely liquid asset. It is also the natural hedge against adverse money movements and inflation. While gold has shown strong returns over recent years, its most valuable contribution to a portfolio lies in the fact that it is not…
Chasing transparency: replication may be the key
Transparency is something almost all investors into hedge funds want but which hedge funds are reluctant to provide. Phyllis Feinberg critiques a returns-based technique that could provide greater transparency for funds.
Securities lending in emerging markets
Emerging Markets: Stock loan
African dream
Regional Focus: Africa
The benefit of insight - why distribution in Japan calls for managed accounts
Asia in Focus: Japan
The Iong and short of it
Short Extension
Hedge funds in the post-07 age: back to basics
Information Technology
Salt of the earth - Macquarie seeks, and finds, alpha returns from commodities
Macquarie has an enviable experience in the commodities and softs markets both trading and structuring products, so it was only logical it has put this to work in a hedge fund format, writes David Walker
Reaching for the stars ..
Alpstar has launched a range of credit-related funds and products, and is branching into equity hedge fund management as well. David Walker sat down with the team at Alpstar to find out more ..
Halbis enjoys the best of both worlds
Halbis's fund offerings are as broad as they are interesting, writes David Walker
Far-sighted foresight
Stenham has got key decisions right, at the right time in the past, about the future, so David Walker asked Harry Wulfsohn about what the future now holds for the FoHF group
The right tools: equities vs CFDs vs spreads
Synthetic Prime Brokerage
From alpha to beta
Michael Azlen, founder of Frontier Capital Management, explains to David Walker why he is no alpha fan
Between a Rock and an easy place to move to
Country Focus: Gibraltar
Cool-headed and anything but distressed
David Walker met Mellon Global Alternative Investments' directors Derek Stewart and Scott MacDonald to find out how they coped last year and their plan for 2008