Posts Tagged ‘ fund administration ’

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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Global players circling private equity firms

FT Mandate, March 2009 There are huge opportunities in private equity, but can boutique houses offer the services and security that are in demand? By Gerry O’Kane. You can almost hear the increasing pitter-patter of the administrators’ heartbeat when they speak about private equity prospects in 2009. While much is made of a grinding...

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Adapting to a changing landscape

FT Mandate, March 2009 The dire economic situation towards the end of 2008 saw asset-servicers battening down the hatches, but now the institutions have to convince their clients that they provide a safe haven in these troubled times. By Gerry O’Kane. If 2007 was a relatively low-key year for the asset servicing industry, with...

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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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