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Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: The topic of hedge fund regulation has been dotted through the headlines over the past few weeks. It has appeared just often enough through news of further Presidential Working Group (PWG) meetings, comments by government figures, or finger pointing by US presidential candidates, to remain steadfast in the periphery of the news. In light of these pushes for hedge fund regulation, three providers within the hedge fund industry: Paladyne Systems – a technology provider, Thomson Reuters – an information provider, and NumeriX – which provides pricing and risk analytics – published a white paper on hedge fund portfolio pricing. It is a topic they believe whereby industry wide acceptance of best practices would be a solid first step towards keeping the hedge fund industry in control of what they see to be inevitable regulation.

“We are only delaying the inevitable. Either you are going to get together and figure out how to [self regulate] now or you are going to be told how to do it. This is a call for action to the industry to step up and deal with this challenge.” – Sameer Shalaby, CEO Paladyne Systems

Opalesque had a chance to speak with CEO of Paladyne, Sameer Shalaby, about the research paper and the next steps which these three companies are looking to take in addressing the challenges of pricing. Citing the many different perspectives involved in unified pricing practices, S......................

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