The author is Frank Casey, Special Advisor to the CEO, The Regulatory Fundamentals Group, a firm that provides an enterprise-wide view of the US laws that impact alternative asset managers and others involved in the field: In the wake of MF Global, it can be tempting to suggest myriad rules,

This article was authored by Richard Harris, fund manager at Port Shelter Investment Management, based in Hong Kong. He compares the investment management industry to what it was like 26 years ago. I remember a former Managing Director asking me to write a message to Head Office on a blank

This article was authored by Charles T. Hage. Mr. Hage is currently Compliance Officer at U.S.-based firm Mohican Financial Management, LLC. During his career he has reviewed financial performance measures in alternative investments and managed financial risk in corporate investment programs.

By: Don Steinbrugge, Chairman of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds: Since the market correction of 2008, a vast majority of hedge fund net asset flows have gone to a small minority of hedge funds with the strongest brands, marking a change

By Kayode Akindele, Funsho Allu and Fred Binka: partners of 46 Parallels LLP, an investment management business based in London and Lagos. The current focus on supplying finance to the microfinance/SME sector is admirable, but orphans a swathe of important companies across Sub Saharan Africa (SS

By Dr. David E. McClean, lecturer in philosophy and business ethics, Rutgers University & Molloy College, and Principal, The DMA Consulting Group Part of the problem was that only in an environment of crisis can the self-regulators galvanize themselves to actions that they couldn't otherwise

By Victor Murray, LLB, PG Dip LP, Accredited Director and who has been resident in the Cayman Islands from 2002. He is the Assistant Secretary of the Cayman Islands Directors Association. He is admitted as a Lawyer in New York and as a Solicitor in Scotland. He has considerable offshore fund experi

Written by: Stuart Thomson, Chief Market Economist, Ignis Asset Management. Issued by Ignis Investment Services Ltd. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. This article contains the personal views of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Ignis Asset Management.

This article was authored by Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Partner of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds based in Richmond, VA. After the market decline of 2008, the hedge fund industry experienced a significant contraction that was drive

By Dr Yang Tao, chief economist at the publication, China’s Economy & Policy, and director general of research base for industrial finance at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In the 1960s, as a consequence of the sterling crisis, US monetary policy and the cold war, a large amount of US

By Michael Bernstein, CFA, CAIA If you ask ten funds of hedge fund (“FOHF”) managers to state whether they generate more of their returns from manager selection or strategy allocation, a couple of things will happen. The first is that all 10 will tell you it is very difficult to quantify how m

The following post was written by John Doran, Principal, SunGard Global Services’ Energy Practice. Value at Risk (VaR) is a popular metric used in risk management. While it ga

The following article was written by Jeffrey E. Kopiwoda of Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd., email: JKopiwoda@fvldlaw.com Since 2008, increases in investor trepidation and regulatory action have resulted in greater barriers to entry for emerging fund managers. Simultaneously, the number

Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa The rising food prices are stimulating interest in investing in African agriculture. But these inves

The following article was written by Michael D. Underhill, Chief Investment Officer at Capital Innovations LLC. As a veteran of the institutional investment management industry for over two decades, I have seen a series of booms and bust

This column was authored by Dag Detter an independent advisor and state asset specialist. He is the former President of the Swedish Government Holding Company Stattum and the Government Director of State-Owned Enterprises. While the World grapples with a great experiment to establish whethe

The following is an analysis from the latest hedgegate FoHF Newsletter: From a Swiss perspective, the directive contains clear improvements compared to the first draft. The phased introduction of "third-c

The following is a research note from Zurich-based asset management firm Arsago, looking at the implications of Dilma Rousseff’s victory in the Brazilian Presidential election. Summary: We said in the lead-up to the final round of

This is an executive summary of a paper authored last year by Thomas Kuntz, CEO of New Jersey-based firm called Polymetis LLC, which offers due diligence, investment research, strategic consulting, and advisory s

The following piece was authored by Charles E. F. Millard, President of Cardinal Advisors, LLC, based in New York City. Cardinal provides consulting in various areas of financial services, with a particular emphasis on interacting with pensions, i

This article was authored by Alric Lindsay, a Cayman-based independent director, who prior to his experience working as an investment funds attorney for two global law firms, was a senior compliance analyst with the Cayman Islands Monetary Author