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Innovation and imagination applied to hedge fund performance payments

How does the controversy and debate about bank bonuses affect the hedge fund industry? What will be the repercussions for remuneration in the industry, particularly the performance fee model?

Hedge Funds Review | 11 Nov 2009secure

Who is John Galt?

The question that permeates Ayn Rand’s legendary Atlas Shrugged has a peculiar resonance at the moment for financial services in general and for hedge funds in particular. Those unfamiliar with the cult......

Hedge Funds Review | 11 Nov 2009secure

Robust defence of industry seen as adding value to society

“Are hedge funds socially irresponsible?”

Hedge Funds Review | 10 Oct 2009secure

Fading memories

How soon we forget. Markets are rising and could end the year higher than before the financial crisis, despite the fact fundamentals that should underpin and logically support prices are absent. Governments,......

Hedge Funds Review | 10 Oct 2009secure

Not quite champagne time

As the anniversary of the Lehman collapse that triggered the worst financial crisis since 1929 rolls around, it is not quite time to start popping Dom Perignon corks. There is still some debate as to whether......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Sep 2009secure

Shorting is here to stay but execution techniques may be changing

Is shorting changing? Do funds use prime brokers to borrow the instrument itself or use derivatives to achieve the same ends?

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Sep 2009secure

New Year resolutions look at hedge funds future in 2009

New Year is traditionally the time to take stock of the past year and look forward with hope and renewed energy to the year to come. In most countries at the stroke of midnight the New Year is heralded......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jan 2009secure

Fubar markets of 2008 frustrate industry pundits

What was the biggest mistake you witnessed in 2008? Trying to pick the biggest mistake in a year full of colossal errors of judgement, policy and execution is tough. Top of the list comes the debacle following......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Dec 2008secure

Naughty or nice, markets seek rationality and normality

Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is liquidity. Although, to be honest, that is just the tip of the iceberg of a wish list of factors needed to restore anything approaching the level of trust needed......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Dec 2008secure

Colin McLean, SVM Asset Management

2009 should bring good opportunity for the surviving hedge funds, both in longs and shorts. Sectors do not all recover at the same time. Next year there will be some downward trends even as leading sectors......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

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