Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Hedge-Fund Industry 2.0 Is Already Taking Shape: Matthew Lynn
Bloomberg – There are signs of life returning to the hedge-fund industry. Assets under management are rising. New funds are being launched. Some are even making money. Reports of hedge funds’ demise are exaggerated even if it isn’t quite time […]
Could E.U. Hedge Fund Plans Cause a Cold War?
New York Times Blogs – A move by the European Commission to adopt proposed regulation for hedge funds could end up igniting a transatlantic regulatory war, one of Britain’s hedge fund veterans warned in an interview with The Financial Times. […]
Alternative Investment Draft Directive ‘Needs Major Surgery’ – Paul Myners at AIMA Meeting
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Paul Myners, the UK Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at an Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) event this morning in London, said, “the UK is not in the business of blocking more stringent […]
FSA to triple some fines
Reuters UK – Britain’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) plans to triple some of the fines it imposes on financial sector wrongdoers as part of a crackdown on offences such as mis-selling and insider dealing. The bigger fines are designed to […]
Experts respond to SEC proposals
Caymen Net News – Local hedge fund experts have reacted favourably to last week’s proposals by the Inspector General of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to increase fund regulation. The SEC has proposed that regulation of hedge funds […]
Hedge Fund Fraudster Faces Up To 10 Years
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – ‘Hedge fund operator’ Rod Stringer has pleaded guilty to money laundering in a $14 million Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors say. He allegedly took money from 44 victims over 8 years, claiming to be "a day […]
Book Review: Hedge Funds (An Analytic Perspective)
Seeking Alpha – Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective by Andrew W. Lo is a highly technical and intellectual analysis of hedge funds. Mr. Lo has filled his book with many advanced, detailed concepts and statistics about the hedge fund industry. […]
Interview: EU law set to discriminate against private equity
EurActiv.com – European Commission proposals to regulate alternative investment funds discriminate against private equity and favour direct competitors like sovereign wealth funds or maverick businessmen, Javier Echarri, secretary-general of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), told EurActiv in an interview. […]
Risk Analytics Provider Measurisk Crosses 1,000 Hedge Fund Milestone
West palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) – Leading risk analytics provider Measurisk, LLC, an affiliate of J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS), today announced that it has crossed an important industry milestone in modeling the full positions of over 1,000 hedge funds […]
Hedge fund manager Chris Hohn donates £500m to his wife’s charity
Guardian.co.uk – The secretive hedge fund manager and philanthropist Chris Hohn last year donated almost half a billion pounds to the children’s charity run by his wife, it emerged yesterday. The £486m gift follows hefty profits at Hohn’s hedge fund […]