Glen Dailey, Managing Director and Head of Prime Brokerage of Jefferies LLC and a hedge fund industry pioneer, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Sustainability Achievement Award by Solar One, the leading think tank for environmental education [...]

By: Carolyn Bentzien, Valuation Research Corporation – The Spring of 2012 heralded a new and exciting time for investment funds considering blossoming into Business Development Companies (“BDC”). In April 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act was enacted into [...]

It has been recently covered in the media that Mary Jo White, who became SEC chairman on April 10, is pushing to adopt the JOBS ACT without major changes and potentially adding additional investor protections at a later date.  While [...]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released a new report showing that participants receiving capital through the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) boosted lending for the seventh straight quarter. In total, SBLF participants have increased small business lending by [...]

The results of the fifth annual survey will be launched today at Dow Jones’ Global Compliance Symposium being held in Washington DC. This year’s survey interviewed compliance professionals from more than 350 companies worldwide. Of the companies represented, 71% stopped [...]

The 2012 annual surveys of the hedge fund industry are out, and all of them point to an increasingly competitive business environment for running an alternative investment fund. Management costs continued to rise as investor and regulatory demands on the [...]

American retirees should not be tempted to pile into Treasury bonds too strongly in response to the Cyprus banking crisis, warns the boss of the world’s largest financial advisory firm. The comments from the chief executive of the deVere Group, [...]

Agecroft Partners, a hedge fund consultant and third party marketer has won the Hedgeweek 2013 Award for Third Party Marketer of the Year. Hedgeweek’s 41,000 subscribers: institutional investors, wealth managers, hedge fund managers, and industry professionals, voted on the Awards. [...]

ProTrak International today announced a new upgrade to their popular CRM platform for Investment Managers, Hedge Funds, FoHFs, Family Offices and Private Equity firms. With ProTrak Advantage 9.0, clients will now realize enhanced internal communication effectiveness using the new e-mail [...]

Institutional Investor’s Alpha - The average CTA eked out a 0.09 percent gain in February, bringing the total return for the first two months to 1.56 percent, according to Newedge’s Alternative Investment Solutions Group, part of Newedge’s Prime Clearing Services. Graham [...]

Hedge fund service provider NorthPoint, has completed the February 2013 round of Form PF submissions for a broad range of hedge fund and asset management clients. “Form PF is an exercise for which it definitely pays to ‘measure twice and [...]

Decosimo Corporate Finance, LLC (“DCF”), an investment banking firm affiliated with the 9-office regional accounting and business advisory firm Decosimo, announced today that the firm is continuing to expand its sell-side advisory reach by adding affiliates in Michigan, New York [...]