This article was written by Craig Asche, Executive Director of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). We are well over a month into the New Year and still significant uncertainties overhang the financial industry in general and the alternative investment community sp

This article was written by Dr. Momtchil Pojarliev, new senior portfolio manager at U.S.-based asset manager Hathersage, and by Richard M. Levich, professor of finance at New York’s Stern School of business – it

This article was written by Bryan Goh, First Avenue Partners LLP, London : It sounds like a plan. President Obama in an effort to address what is widely believed to be a flawed banking model has decided to ressurrect the Glass Steagall Act 1933. Glass Steagall 1932 had already been effect

This article was written by Nadia Menezes, Senior Associate at law firm Ogier. The market turbulence over the last twelve months has seen fund structures and mechanics being strenuously tested under extreme conditions. Whilst the

This commentary was written by Maximilian Thiel, senior manager at AIMhedge Management Ltd, a Liechstenstein and Caymans-based alternative management firm. The firm's flagship, AIMhedge Global Diversified Fund Ltd, is a systematic hedge fund focused on delivering absolute returns by investin

This article was written by Christopher P. Wells and Linda L. Ng. – Christopher P. Wells is a partner and Linda L. Ng is a counsel with White & Case LLP’s Tokyo and Hong Kong/Singapore offices, respectively. The bright lights and relaxed lifestyle of Singapore beckon to EU fund managers who a

The following article was authored by Adam Weisman, Partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and Tania Lynn, Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP. Fraud has always represented a dangerous and perhaps dangerou

The authors of this article are Kevin Phillip and Wade Kenny, both managers at dms Management Ltd. (dms), the largest management firm in the Cayman Islands. dms focuses on serving the hedge fund industry. It has long been a fact of life for registered investment advisers preparing for, and su

By Peter Urbani, CIO, Infiniti Capital: An obscure tract by a University of Adelaide Statistics Professor, Edmund Cornish is today among the leading candidates for improving risk management. The 1937 paper by Edmund Alfred Cornish (1909 - 1973) and Sir Ronald Fisher* provides the basis

The following was written by Rene Levesque (CFA), founder of www.mountjoycapital.com: There is nothing wrong with the hedge fund fees Indeed, there is nothing wrong with the prevailing hedge fund fee structures. The current debate on

This article was written by Bryan Goh, First Avenue Partners LLP, London: Does the printing of money by central banks inevitably lead to inflation? Is there good inflation and bad inflation? Quantitative easing is now underway in most developed cou

The Obama administration’s proposal for a financial regulatory overhaul continues to send shockwaves through the financial services sector. The virtually unregulated hedge fund and alternative investment industry is likely to receive heightened government oversight under any reform efforts. As thi

Offshore legal and fiduciary services firm Ogier says a likely consequence of the plethora of tax regulatory initiatives currently being developed by the G-20, OECD, US, EU and UK, will be that investment managers will need to establish additional management and administration operations in the juri

The following is an edited transcript of a presentation Thomas Walek, President of a New York-based public relations agency Walek & Associates, gave recently in Hong Kong to a group of hedge fund managers and investor relations executives: Our topic is "Hedge Fund Investor Relations: Ne

The following piece was authored by Dick Del Bello, a senior partner at Conifer Securities, LLC, a U.S.-based prime brokerage and provider of comprehensive business and operations solutions to hedge funds and investment managers. I

The article was written by David Claypoole, principal of Parks Legal Placement in Summit, NJ. As an executive recruiter focused narrowly on the legal and compliance needs of alternative asset managers, I expected to see an uptick in the dema

The French have an expression: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" (The more it changes, the more it remains the same). On June 22, 1941 - Napoleon crossed the Niemen June 22,1812 - three German armies crossed over into Russia. The Northern Group was commanded by Field-Marshall von L

This article was written by Bryan Goh, First Avenue Partners LLP, London: Convertible arbitrage has been one of the best performing hedge fund strategies year to date in 2009, up

This article was written by Bryan Goh, First Avenue Partners LLP, London, in reference to the recent Economist.com article 'Gluttons for punishment? Investors

This article was written by Bryan Goh, First Avenue Partners LLP, London, in reference to yesterday’s article ‘Hedge funds under fire for not spotting market rally’ (

This article was authored by Bryan Goh, First Avenue Partners LLP, London. In the interest of full disclosure, First Avenue Partners of which I am a partner, runs a hedge fund seeding and incubation business. I generally don't talk my own book and I