Tag Archives: alternative-investment-management-association
Alternative Investment Specialist Joins Canadian Hedge Fund
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Todd Groome is joining Diversified Global Asset Management (DGAM) as a Managing Director, effective February 1, 2009. Responsible for business development, Groome will also advise the investment team on macro investment themes and the global […]
Hedge Funds Not Alone in Defending Short-Selling Secrecy
Seeking Alpha – The debate over short selling often pits traditional “long-only” managers against the upstart alternatives: hedge funds. But as this report in yesterday’s FT points out, the lines between “traditional” and “alternative” are blurring quickly. The Alternative Investment […]
Huge cash outflows hit hedge funds
The Australian – After suffering one of the worst years on record, Australia’s $62 billion hedge fund industry is bracing for even tougher times in 2009 as a confluence of factors works against them, including poor performance, more regulation, further […]
Hedge funds back short selling ban
Sydney Morning Herald – The hedge fund industry says it supports federal government plans to ban naked short selling and impose a disclosure regime for covered short selling. The Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) said the […]
Hedge funds fear bankruptcy after Porsche squeeze
Times Online – Hedge funds were heading for a full-blown row with the German Government last night as it emerged that funds sitting on tens of billions of euro losses after short-selling Volkswagen could go bankrupt. Porsche, VW’s biggest shareholder, […]
UK Hedge Fund Managers Recieve AIMA’s Latest Capital Adequacy Guidance Update
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Global representative association for the hedge fund industry, the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has issued updated guidance to its members on how to implement an Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process. "The hedge fund industry […]
Australian Securities and Investments Commission ban cops hedge
News.com.au – Kim Ivey, chairman of the Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association said Australian banks no longer needed further government protection. He said the ban was damaging market liquidity and denying investors the ability to protect their […]
Hedge fund launches in dire times
Globe and Mail – On monday, when North American markets cratered, was not the most auspicious day to launch a closed-end fund of hedge funds, but Star Hedge Managers Corp. has been quietly trading since then. This fund invests in […]
BlackRock tops retail fund sales
Reuters UK – Fund firm BlackRock held onto the top spot for net sales of British funds to retail investors in the second quarter, according to industry data, helped by sales of its hedge fund-style UK Absolute Alpha fund. BlackRock […]
Hedge fund lobby asks for more time to accommodate short-selling rules
Times Online- The hedge fund industry’s lobby group mounted a last-ditch attempt yesterday to persuade the City regulator to delay its controversial rules on short-selling, which are due to come into force tomorrow. The Alternative Investment Management Association sent a […]
Super funds eye hedge funds
Money Management- A survey of some of Australia’s biggest superannuation funds has found that they intend to increase their average allocations to hedge funds from 2.5 to 3.5 per cent over the next two to five years, according to a […]
MFA Submits Comments On Hedge Fund Committees
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Hedge Fund representative, the Managed Funds Association (MFA), has submitted comments on the Best Practices Reports released by the two Committees appointed by the U.S. President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG). The Asset Managers’ Committee […]