Strategy
Perfect partner?
information technology
Which way is up? - measuring performance
academic paper
Yodel for joy! The Swiss give go-ahead for single hedge funds
country focus: switzerland
Great expectations, great demands
administration
The magic of macro...
While getting the strategy and manager mix right may be the 'visible' end of a successful fund of hedge funds house, Permal's Omar Kodmani explains to Solomon Teague advances, such as those in technology are also allowing the $35bn London house to…
Where change equals opportunity
Flux is a good thing if you know what to do with it. In changing markets that produce evolving opportunities, some of the hedge fund managers at Threadneedle Investments sat down in London recently, to discuss the challenges and opportunities the markets…
Eagle-eyed regulators make compliance and control allocators' key in loan market
loans/distressed debt
Best of breed
Hedge Funds Review honoured Europe's most successful single hedge funds managers and hedge fund groups in July, in London, at its annual single-manager European Performance Awards. The envelope please, and the winners were…
Smart money
ION Asset Management has made quite an impression managing its Israel long/short equity fund, chalking up 34.7% net in its first year to 30 June. David Walker spoke with ION's co-founder Stephen Levey (pictured below) to find out more...
Basel bonanza a boon for cold hard cash
While hedge funds may be used to holdings in cash management funds for investor redemptions, Basel II has given banks a greater incentive, to allow their use as collateral as well, Solomon Teague reports
Demystifying the practice of synthetic CDO valuation
Nosheen Khan, vice president, structured credit valuations at Markit, examines the base correlation mapping methods for implying bespoke collateralised debt obligation (CDO) correlations from standard index tranche correlations
Why the implied correlation of dispersion has to be higher than the correlation swap strike
It may be accepted wisdom and proven fact, that the implied correlation that results from a dispersion trade does not equal the price of a correlation swap in the market, but AXA Investment Managers Saad Slaoui and Jerome Vierling examine the theory…
The easy path to permanent capital Nirvana...
Listing funds is one way of raising capital that sticks, Alpha Strategic shows managers there's more than one way to skin this cat, as Solomon Teague writes
Divide and rule?
MSS Capital's head of structuring in EMEA, Caelim Parkes examines the benefits and drawbacks of managed accounts, in answering why at least a portion of one's hedge fund assets should be managed in segregated accounts
Unbiased reporting
Edhec's Walter Gehin assesses the importance of database quality and impact on various biases, on hedge fund returns
Getting strongly bullish about the prospects and future opportunities in the land of the bear
russia equity long/short
When speed is of the essence: working the short sell in Asia
Speed is critical when going short in Asia's emerging markets, says Lionhart's Jason Kennard. Success means knowing the market and your customers, and having 24-hour access to a trading platform that can adequately back up your strategies, he adds
The responsive alternative...
Barclays Capital's Michael Brian explains hedge funds' nimbleness does put pressure on prime brokers to respond in kind but, as is the case with all rapidly changing industries, the cream does still rise to the top
There's more than one way to skin a cat
The ability to invest long and short is central to efficient risk mitigation in today's capital markets, so the theory goes, but your IT systems need to be able to keep up