Posts Tagged ‘ alternative investment ’

Hedge funds shaken up

March 2010 FT Mandate The ghost of Bernie Madoff is haunting fund managers, causing a chain reaction of transparency, regulation and a greater administrative role. In the past two years, the hedge fund management business has been shaken up like never before, with redemptions on an unprecedented scale, fund closures, asset values dropping and...

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A prescription for investor protection

FT Mandate,  June 2009 The EC’s draft regulations for the alternative investment industry demand greater transparency, reduced leverage and higher liquidity from funds. By Gerry O’Kane. The relative silence from the alternative investment market on the new European Commission (EC) draft rules should come as no surprise. The EC announced the draft directive on...

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Putting market volatility to work

FT Mandate, October 2008 Volatility trading is no longer the preserve of hedge funds as traditional investors look to exploit the huge spikes in the market. By Gerry O’Kane. The one consistency the markets have been showing in recent months is volatility. Where there is movement, the investment sector finds opportunity and in recent...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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