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Spartan is pleased to announce the launch of the qmetrica fund | Dec 02/14 |
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Spartan is pleased to announce the launch of the qmetrica fund
Toronto, Ontario – December 1, 2014 – Spartan is pleased to introduce a new
fund to our line-up: the qmetrica fund, a quantitative, non-discretionary
long-short e...Read more |
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2014 Morningstar Awards | Nov 27/14 |
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TORONTO, Nov. 26, 2014 /CNW/ - Morningstar Research, Inc., a Canadian
subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of
independent investment research, today announced the winners of the 2014
Morningstar...Read more |
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Want returns? Choose alternative investments | Nov 24/14 |
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Everyone’s looking for an edge. And for investors, that can mean choosing
non-traditional strategies and asset classes.
Managed futures, real estate, and timber funds were among the alternatives
explored during a panel sessio...Read more |
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Help HFC Give the Gift of Caring | Nov 24/14 |
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We probably all like presents. We often get them
for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and once
in a while for no reason a...Read more |
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The CSE brings NASDAQ's Corporate Solutions to Issuers | Nov 24/14 |
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NEW YORK and
TORONTO, November 20, 2014 - (GLOBENEWSWIRE) –
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced a new
partnership with the
Canadian
Securities Exchange (CSE) in Toronto, to
further its co...Read more |
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AIMA announces new Council directors | Nov 24/14 |
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London – 24 November
2014: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global
hedge fund industry association, has announced the appointment of two new
directors to the AIMA Council, ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Care Gala Raises Nearly $200K for prevention of Child Abuse | Nov 10/14 |
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Toronto ON November 10, 2014 – Well over 200 Canadian hedge fund and
financial services industry professionals and supporters gathered at the Spoke
Club in Toronto November 4 for the 11th annual “Open Your Hearts to the Childr...Read more |
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A New Growth Path for Crystalline Management | Nov 06/14 |
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A New Growth Path for Crystalline Management Merging the Activities of Sigma
Alpha Capital with our Operations
Crystalline Management is pleased to announce that effective November 1st 2014
it has integrated the activities...Read more |
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Growing Institutional Use of Smart Beta Strategies | Nov 04/14 |
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Growing Institutional Use of
Smart Beta Strategies
Posted
11.03.14 From
DailyAlts Staff
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Alternative Investment Regulatory Impact Session | Oct 30/14 |
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The Canadian regulatory environment for
alternative investment managers has
followed a patte...Read more |
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Mergermarket has released its M&A roundup report | Oct 30/14 |
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Mergermarket has released its M&A
roundup report for the third quarter (Q3) of 2014 for Canada. Take a look at
the full report
HERE.
A few key findings include:
· In line with the ove...Read more |
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Annual Hedge Funds Care Canada Gala | Oct 27/14 |
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Canada’s Alternative Investment Industry Once Again Open Their Hearts in
Support of the Prevention of Child Abuse
Eleventh
Annual Hedge Funds Care Canada Gala to be held
November 4
http://hfc.org//docs/2014Pre...Read more |
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CommonWealth Fund Services Named Best Canadian Hedge Fund Administrator | Oct 23/14 |
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CommonWealth Fund Services Named Best Canadian Hedge Fund
Administrator
TORONTO October 23, 2014 - CommonWealth Fund
Services Ltd., a leading Toronto-based fund administrator, has been named
"Best Canadian Hedge F...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Bets on Crude as Prices Tumble | Oct 21/14 |
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Plunging oil prices spurred
hedge funds
to cut bullish wagers by the most in six weeks, losing confidence in the
willingness of producers to constrict supply.
Money managers cut net-long
positions in West Texas Intermedi...Read more |
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World’s Top-Ranked Pension Funds Probed for Hedge Fund Use | Oct 21/14 |
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Denmark, home to the world’s top-ranked pension system, will toughen
oversight of the $500 billion industry after regulators observed a surge in
risk-taking linked in part to more widespread use of
hedge funds.
The Financi...Read more |
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Maxam Capital Management Ltd. | Oct 02/14 |
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Active management for dynamic markets.
We are pleased to let you know that Travis Dowle, fund manager of the Maxam
Diversified Strategies Fund, was recently featured in the Financial Post’s Buy &
Sell column. In thi...Read more |
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AIMA Announces New Council | Sep 23/14 |
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London – 19 September 2014: The
Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund
industry association, has announced the formation of a new AIMA Council,
AIMA’s global board of direc...Read more |
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AIMA UPDATES FLAGSHIP DDQ FOR HEDGE FUND MANAGERS | Sep 03/14 |
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London – 3 September 2014: The Alternative Investment Management
Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry body, has published an
updated edition of its flagship due diligence questionnaire (DDQ), the AIMA DDQ
...Read more |
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Spartan adds Carl James to sales team | Sep 03/14 |
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Toronto, Ontario – September
2, 2014 – Spartan Fund Management Inc. is pleased to announce the
appointment of Carl James as Vice-President, National Sales.
Mr. James joins Dejan Knezevic
in the role of dis...Read more |
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AIMA Canada Announces New Board for 2014-2016 Term | Sep 02/14 |
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Michael Burns Succeeds Gary Ostoich as Chair
Toronto ON –
September 2, 2014 -
AIMA Canada,
the National Group of the Alternative Investment Management
...Read more |
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The Honourable Louise Arbour Joins BLG | Aug 28/14 |
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) is delighted to announce that one of Canada’s
leading jurists, the Honourable Louise Arbour, former United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada...Read more |
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Circle Partners acquisition of Caledonian Global Fund Services Ltd. | Aug 25/14 |
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Amersfoort, the Netherlands – Circle Partners, an independent
financial services provider with headquarters
in the Netherlands, today announced the acquisition of
Caledonian Global Fund Services Limited based in
Orlando,...Read more |
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AIMA releases "The Case for Hedge Funds" -- compilation of AIMA's thought-leadership research | Aug 21/14 |
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London – 21 August 2014: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA),
the global hedge fund industry body, has published “The Case for Hedge Funds”, a
compilation of AIMA’s thought-leadership research since the gl...Read more |
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Unlocking the Mystery; Why US 10 Year Treasury Yields are Down at 2.4%, Ten Things You Need to Know | Aug 18/14 |
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Special thanks to Robbert Van Batenburg of Newedge who Co-Authored this
report.
How could
Wall
Street economists have been so wrong? On January 1st the consensus forecast
of the 66 most senior economists for the year end ...Read more |
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Goldman Sachs Dumps Weaker Hedge-Fund Clients | Aug 05/14 |
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Bank Jettisons Some Less-Profitable Clients as New
Capital Rules Take Their Toll
By
Justin Baer
and
Juliet Chung
Aug. 4, 2014 7:21 p.m. ET
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
GS +0.85% is upend...Read more |
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AIFMD implementation incomplete uncertainty remains - AIMA | Jul 23/14 |
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London – 22 July 2014: The implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund
Managers Directive (AIFMD) is incomplete and significant uncertainty
remains, the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), th...Read more |
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NAPIER PARK GLOBAL CAPITAL ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF CITI’S $2.4 BILLION REDEMPTION | Jul 22/14 |
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NAPIER PARK GLOBAL CAPITAL ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF CITI’S $2.4 BILLION
REDEMPTION; CLIENT AUM AT APPROXIMATELY $6 BILLION
Napier Park Global Capital (“Napier Park”), the $6 billion global
alternative asset manag...Read more |
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More Amendments, Less Harmony? | Jul 16/14 |
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More Amendments, Less Harmony?: Canadian Regulators Propose Amendments to OTC Derivatives Trade Reporting Rules
On November14, 2013, the Ontario Securities Commission (the OSC)
published OSC Rule 91-507 Trade Repositories and ...Read more |
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Global alternative AUM hit US$5.7 trillion | Jul 15/14 |
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Pension funds at the forefront of investing in new
alternatives
Investors worldwide now have a total of US$5.7
trillion devoted to alternative assets, according to new research from
Towers Watson.The firm reports ...Read more |
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SS&C Signs Two New Global Wealth Platform Customers | Jul 09/14 |
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SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SSNC), a global provider of financial services software and
software-enabled services, would like to share the enclosed announcement
with you about VanCity and Lucie an...Read more |
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AIMA Launches OTC Derivatives Clearing Guidelines | Jul 02/14 |
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London – 1
July 2014: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global
hedge fund industry association, has launched OTC derivatives clearing
guidelines for asset managers.
AIMA’s Guide
to Sou...Read more |
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Former dealer rep fined $2 million over hedge fund scheme | Jul 02/14 |
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An MFDA panel emphasized the problems caused by the former rep’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation
By James Langton | June 26, 2014 18:10
A former fund dealer rep has been fined $2 million after a hearing panel of ...Read more |
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AIMA signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Asset Management Association of China | Jun 26/14 |
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London - 26th June 2014: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AMAC, the Asset Management Association of China.
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AIMA/Barclays Survey Shows Strong Trend to Investor/Hedge Fund Partnerships | Jun 24/14 |
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The Alternative
Investment Management Association (AIMA) today released a new survey conducted
with Barclays on Investor/Hedge Fund partnerships (see attachment).
The survey of
investors and managers, called ‘The Extra M...Read more |
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Man Investments Canada now Next Edge | Jun 12/14 |
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Next Edge to rebrand the funds it manages
Man Group plc and Toronto-based Man Investments Canada Corp. (MICC) said
Wednesday that after receiving all necessary approvals they ha...Read more |
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3 of the Biggest Hedge Fund Failures in History | Jun 11/14 |
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Rule No. 1 of investing, as
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO
Warren Buffett famously put it, is to never lose money; rule No.2 is
never forget rule No. 1.
As intuitive as this rule is, it’s not
actually straightfo...Read more |
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Hedge funds' allure pulls in $18.6 bln in new cash in April | Jun 11/14 |
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The allure of
hedge funds grew in April when investors added $18.6 billion in new
money to these portfolios, according to a survey, even as their performance
again lagged behind stock and bond
markets' returns.
In...Read more |
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Interactive Brokers Offers Complete Prime Broker Turnkey Solution... | Jun 05/14 |
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Interactive Brokers Offers
Complete Prime Broker Turnkey Solution
for Hedge and Mutual Funds
that provides trading, clearing, custody, and reporting
capability on over 100 market destinations worldwide.Our Hedge and Mutual Fu...Read more |
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Sprott Asset Management Selects SSCNet for Automated Settlement Notification | May 28/14 |
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SSCNet Expands Post-Trade Connectivity for Sprott’s Counterparties
WINDSOR, CT, May 28, 2014 – SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSNC), a
global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Buy Oil as Supply Drops Before Memorial Day | May 26/14 |
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U.S. crude inventories declining from a record before the Memorial Day
weekend spurred speculators to increase bullish bets on oil for a second
week.
Hedge
funds raised their net-long
position in benchmark West ...Read more |
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The top 10 hedge funds by assets | May 14/14 |
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In the nearly $3 trillion hedge fund universe, the rich
keep getting richer and the big keep getting bigger, according to Institutional
Investor's Alpha Hedge Fund 100 list.
As it has in previous years, investor money in 2013...Read more |
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Hedge funds continue downward slide | May 13/14 |
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Hedge funds posted
their second consecutive month of negative returns in April with the Eurekahedge
Hedge Fund Index down 0.15% as global markets continued to falter amid a
sluggish start to the year.
Read:
Conservative...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Report: Impact of Size And Age On Performance | May 01/14 |
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A new report from eVestment looks at the relationship between the size and
age of hedge funds on the one hand, and their performance on the other.
Personally, though, I found the tables relating standard deviation to those
f...Read more |
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Making Greed Great: How Hedge Funds Can Help Save the World | Apr 30/14 |
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"Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures
the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all its forms--greed for life,
for money, for love, knowledge--has marked the upward surge of mank...Read more |
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AIMA releases educational guide to understanding hedge fund performance | Apr 28/14 |
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London – 28 April 2014: The Alternative Investment
Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association, has
published a new educational guide to understanding hedge fund performance.
The guide, ...Read more |
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Why do Investors Love Large Hedge Funds? | Apr 24/14 |
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It’s the always present question mid-size and start-up funds ask themselves
day in and day out. Why do investors keep plowing money into the largest of the
large hedge funds when the statistics have shown time and again that t...Read more |
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Can Absolute Return and Hedge Funds Turn it Around? | Apr 24/14 |
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Hedge funds have seen their slowest start to the year since the financial crisis in 2008 and yet investors continue to allocate funds to the asset classHedge funds have seen their slowest start to the year since the financial
cr...Read more |
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IIROC moves ahead on HFT study | Apr 24/14 |
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IROC has selected two project teams to assess the
impact of high frequency trading and related activity on Canadian equity
marketplaces.
The work is part of the final phase of IIROC's HFT Study.
The two project teams are com...Read more |
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AIMA PUBLISHES NEW AIFMD IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES | Apr 17/14 |
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Hedge funds end 'record' ag commodity buying spree | Apr 15/14 |
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Hedge funds' longest run of
bullish positioning by agricultural commodities in recent history ended as
investors took profits on gains, as well as placing more bets on falling prices.
Managed money, a proxy for
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