Author Archives: Alex Akesson

Aon Corporation today announced that two executives have been named to Business Insurance magazine’s 2010 “Women to Watch” list: Maggie Westdale, chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Aon Benfield and Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen, chief broking officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Aon Risk Solutions. An Aon leader has been named to the “Women to Watch” list each […]

By Joyce E. Heinzerling, Principal at Meridian Fund Advisers Attached is a brief summary of the more than 400 pages of rule proposals recently released by the SEC pertaining to regulations implementing Dodd-Frank’s mandated hedge fund and private equity fund registration and reporting regime. SEC Rule Proposals – Registration and Reporting (pdf 158KB) In preparing the summary, I intended to provide you with […]

The Monday, November 29th edition of the N@ked Short Club is on between 9-10pm/ 21.00-22.00 hrs., London time, on Resonance FM. [104.4FM within London / online worldwide via resonancefm.com] Host, Dr. Stu, Bernie and Jerome will help callers to the Emergency Hedge Fund Helpline (1-800-DISTRESSED) to refine their Inner Sensitivity Analyses. 1 hour of loose talk about hedge funds and the […]

The UCITS Hedge Fund Strategy Index dropped the first time this month as a loss of -0.89% was recorded in the third week of November (by business day 15, November 19th, 2010), leading to month to date performance of +0.33%. Out of the eleven strategies ten were in the red, the biggest losers being CTA (-4.16%), Global Macro (-1.28%) and […]

Press Release – On November 16, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will present an evening with Peter Thiel: American entrepreneur, hedge fund investor and philanthropist. He will share his thoughts on catalyzing innovation in technology. Thiel has been involved with some of the most dynamic companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past decade. His first start-up was PayPal, which […]

Alpha Generation: Leading Women in Hedge Funds 6:30 – 8:30 PM Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Refreshments will be served. 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza(at the intersection of William and Liberty Streets)* 60th Floor New York, NY 10005 *Photo ID required for admittance Special Guest Speakers Shahla Ali, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, Millennium Partners Shireen Qadri, Partner, Pilot Advisors LP Sangeetha Ramaswamy, […]

Northern Trust released a study demonstrating that smaller hedge funds can provide stronger returns and better downside protection in volatile markets than larger ones investing in the same asset class – large-cap U.S. equities. “Our new study indicates that emerging managers may help investors squeeze more out of their most important, and most challenging, asset class,” said Ted Krum, CFP, […]

The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index team today released a new paper entitled, “Q3 2010 Hedge Fund Industry Review,” which states that hedge funds have surpassed their previous high water marks and asset flows are returning to the industry. Hedge Funds, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index (“the Index”), are up 5.98% year-to-date […]