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Opinion

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 2009

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 2009

Robust defence of industry seen as adding value to society

“Are hedge funds socially irresponsible?”

Hedge Funds Review | 10 Oct 2009

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 2009

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 2009

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 2009

Selwyn Blair-Fords, FRSGlobal

The responsibility for any significant change in behaviour lies ultimately with the investor. A real sea-change can only occur when investors start asking more questions of the people who are looking after......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jul 2009

James Harris, Seneca Financial Group

This is an interesting question. To an extent, the Madoff situation has raised questions about corporate governance and oversight of hedge funds. But corporate governance does not get to the heart of the......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jul 2009

Richard Perry, Simmons & Simmons

The liquidity and redemption crisis of 2008 was arguably the acid test for many hedge funds' corporate governance. Some showed that they had robust governance arrangements in place (even if some affected......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jul 2009

Nolan Gesher, Senior Product Manager, Fiserv

Whether hedge funds need more corporate governance or not, investors are going to demand they get it. In addition forward-thinking funds understand that their clients will increasingly evaluate the back-office......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jul 2009

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