Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Yearly financial statements take a significant amount of resources for both hedge funds and auditors. Typically a financial statement is comprised of a variety of excel spreadsheets providing account records and supporting documentation. The manual nature of fi

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Baupost Group is a Boston-based hedge fund founded by Seth Klarman emphasizing risk management. In a letter to investors obtained by Opalesque, Klarman notes that despite rocky market conditions in the latter h

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Naqvi-Van Ness Asset Management, a US-based research-intensive hedge fund manager, announced that Juan Buendia had joined the firm as Director of Business Development at the start of 2012. In a statement, the firm said that it brought Buendia to help secure str

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Jeroen Tielman takes a unique approach to seeding. Tielman started in finance in 1986 at what is now known as ABN AMRO, working in corporate finance and M&A. He then went on to found FundPartners, an independent investment engineering boutique. Following that h

By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: Quest Management Inc’s Doug Barnett is set to launch a pan-Asian ex-Japan hedge fund, the Greyhound Asia Fund, to run alongside his existing single country fund, the Thai Focused Equity Fund.

Florian Guldner, Opalesque Research: Opalesque Ltd., a leading provider of online information services to the alternative investment industry, today announces the estimated January and updated 2011 year-end results for its series of indices tracking emerging hedge fund and managed futures fund m

Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Mrs. Ching Shao, CEO of SMC China Fund, a fund management company head-quartered in Shanghai, was in Switzerland earlier this month to present the investment strategy for the Argos-SMC China F

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Gerald Rehn has weathered difficult markets. He started at Fidelity in 1999, moving into their NASDAQ trading team in 2000, worked at Lehman Brothers until 2008 and eventually became a Senior Vice President at the Abu Dhabi Investment Company. In 2011, he form

From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: Asian fund managers should have tenacity and are required to have ingenuity in order to survive the challenging environment in the region, said Cerulli Assocates in its latest

In the week-ending February 10, 2012, it was reported that former TCI and Citadel duo Masroor Siddiqui and Bruce Emery had teamed up to launch their own global long/short equity fund on May 1; Reyl Asset Management launched two new UCITS IV compliant long/short funds; Merchant House said it

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: In 2010, US Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). This original legislation was passed in a form common to financial regulations that co

Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Investors were more interested in strategies uncorrelated to equity markets, more liquid strategies and were less interested in equity long/short strategies in 2011, and continue to be so, according to recent reports from BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank.

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: US cash equities have lost out again on order flows for 2011 according to research released this week from Tabb Group, a US-based strategic advisory and research firm focus

From Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Mohannad ALRashoudi, Founder and fund Director of hedge fund MR Capital Management, which is managed by the Cayman Islands-based Global Consumer Loyalty Fund Ltd., sees opportunities in the Chinese reverse m

By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: August 2011 saw the launch of the CQS European Distressed fund, managed by Simon Finch, based in the UK and Mark Unferth, based in New York. CQS had already been trading in a broad range of distressed investments across their other funds but as Finch explai

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Stephen Brown is one of the world’s leading hedge fund scholars. He is a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and was recently interviewed by

From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: London-based Scipion Capital, an Africa dedicated fund firm, has reported that all its three Scipion African Opportunities funds posted positive gains in January. In his report to investors, Sc

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York : The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted new amendments to the Securities Act of 1933 that will change the way the regulator determines who qualifies as an accredite

From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: Some 14 institutional investors, representing pension funds and plan sponsors and responsible for $1.6tln in assets, have called on the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), submitting a list of proposed financial reforms that they believe should b

From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: London-based boutique investment firm Aros Capital Partners has reported that its main hedge fund Aros Paradigm Fund returned 14.54% in January compared to its benchmark, HFRX Macro Index (EUR) which was down 1