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	Hedge fund managers need to pay closer attention to details of regulation to avoid...	May 01/12
	Hedge fund managers need to pay closer attention to details of regulation to avoid compliance pitfalls Hedge funds need to pay more attention to the fine detail of regulation of the industry. The in-house general ...Read more
	Provinces support national regulator plans	May 01/12
	The federal government is working with the provinces in an attempt to finally create a common securities regulator within Canada—it will replace the patchwork of 13 regional regulators currently in existence. Finance Minister...Read more
	Man Group Jumps on Analyst Recommendations, Bid Potential	Apr 30/12
	Man Group Plc (EMG), the world’s biggest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, jumped the most since November 2010 in London trading as analysts recommended buying the shares on prospects for better returns and a potential bid. T...Read more
	Hedge funds bet against eurozone	Apr 30/12
	Hedge fund managers make for unlikely supporters of François Hollande, the French socialist presidential candidate. But it is Mr Hollande's potential victory in the coming second round of the French elections, and with it a s...Read more
	Hedge funds line up bets on Spain's debt woes	Apr 27/12
	Hedge funds have spotted money-making opportunities in Spain, betting that market fears over the southern European country's deepening debt crisis have made some assets too cheap relative to other securities. Managers hav...Read more
	Wells Fargo to Acquire Merlin Securities	Apr 27/12
	Expands customer reach and broadens product suite for asset managers New York – April 27, 2012 – Wells Fargo Securities, the capital markets and investment banking business of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), today an...Read more
	Hedge Fund Managers See Tough Year for Industry	Apr 26/12
	Hedge fund managers are predicting a tough year for the sector in 2012.A report by the consulting firm Rothstein Kass found about half of the 400 hedge fund managers who responded believed that 2012 would be a “a difficul...Read more
	Hedge fund's "Billion Dollar Club" loses out to smaller rivals as equity markets rise	Apr 26/12
	Hedge fund allocators were right last year in deciding to funnel more money to firms with $1bn or more - dubbed the ‘Billion Dollar Club' - but this year the higher exposure of smaller funds to rising equity markets ha...Read more
	Hedge Funds Top Over 17 Years	Apr 25/12
	Hedge funds significantly outperformed traditional asset classes such as equities, bonds and commodities over the last 17 years according to a new study by The Centre for Hedge Fund Research at Imperial College in London....Read more
	The Value Hedge Funds Produce	Apr 25/12
	A timely study from Imperial College’s Centre for Hedge Fund Research shows conclusively that hedge fund management strategies produce value. This is the case not only for investors using hedge funds, but for markets and, ...Read more
	Hedge fund exit requests hit new April low - GlobeOp	Apr 24/12
	Investor demands to pull money out of hedge funds fell in April, data shows, in a sign that renewed volatility in financial markets may not be piling fresh pressure on more clients to quit the sector. The GlobeOp Forward ...Read more
	Managers pocket 28 percent of hedge fund profits - study	Apr 24/12
	Hedge fund managers pocketed 28.1 percent of profits generated by their funds over the past 18 years, new research from London's Imperial College found. The research, commissioned by KPMG and hedge fund industry body the ...Read more
	Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Wagers by the Most in Four Months	Apr 23/12
	Hedge funds cut their bets on higher commodity prices by the most in four months on mounting concern that Europe’s debt crisis will derail global growth and curb demand for raw materials. Money managers lowered net-long po...Read more
	Hedge-fund ads are a game-changer	Apr 23/12
	Be careful of pitches from private-equity firms The one thing that might have allowed convicted felon Bernie Madoff to run his phony hedge-fund business even longer in the face of an eroding stock market is successful adverti...Read more
	Man Group to launch computer-driven bond hedge fund	Apr 20/12
	Hedge fund manager Man Group is developing a computer-driven government bond fund, aiming to attract investors put off by the ultra-low yields in many developed fixed income markets and worried about further debt defaults. ...Read more
	It’s time consultants gave funds of funds another go	Apr 20/12
	Funds of hedge funds has become a dirty term since the financial crisis. The industry has struggled to shake off the mistakes of 2008: investments in funds of convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff, liquidity mismatches ...Read more
	Hedge Funds Piled Into Financials Last Quarter	Apr 19/12
	Hedge funds: We just can’t get enough of the financial sector. Bank stocks’ strong first quarter was also a time when funds were gobbling up the sector, judging by new data from Credit Suisse’s (CS) Pankaj Patel. We won’t get ...Read more
	The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index up 0.05% in March	Apr 19/12
	The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished up 0.05% for the month of March. The top performers of the index’s ten sub-strategies were Event-Driven (0.79%) and Fixed Income Arbitrage (0.74%) while the worst performe...Read more
	AIMA paper highlights AIFMD differences	Apr 19/12
	The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has published detailed analysis of the European Commission’s draft implementing rules for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which shows subst...Read more
	Starting a hedge fund loses its appeal	Apr 18/12
	The old picture of the hedge fund start-up as two traders and a terminal at a posh London address looks ever more dated as the risky financial environment makes jobs at bigger firms a safer bet. A tough year for hedge fun...Read more
	JOBS Act will drastically alter HF industry, says Kinetic	Apr 18/12
	The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act liberalises the way private placements are conducted and allows general solicitation and general advertising, according to Kinetic Partners, a global professional services firm ...Read more
	New Canadian regulations on dark pools protect institutional investors	Apr 18/12
	Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, has welcomed the decision by the Canadian regulators, released on Friday 13 April, to ensure that the new Canadian rules on dark pools preserve appropriate protections for ...Read more
	Barclay Hedge Fund Index gains 0.19% in March	Apr 18/12
	Hedge funds gained 0.19% in March, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. “The US equity market extended its unbroken rally to four months in March, while European and Asian stock markets were mos...Read more
	Linedata wins prestigious HFMWeek award for third year running	Apr 18/12
	<!-- DIV.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1 } --> Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that i...Read more
	Green Light for Hedge-Fund Ads Means Caution on Main Street	Apr 17/12
	Thanks to a little-noticed provision tucked into the just-signed jobs bill, hedge funds may soon be making a bold move into marketing—and the mainstream. The JOBS Act, signed by President Obama on April 5, lifted a decades-old ...Read more
	Four Questions to Consider BEFORE Investing in Hedge Funds	Apr 17/12
	In a world of low expected returns across most asset classes, it can be tempting for investors to search for ways to increase their expected returns by turning towards alternative investment strategies such as hedge funds. Th...Read more
	Stop Press: Fund Managers Have Skill: Inalytics	Apr 17/12
	Contrary to what some cynics might think, fund managers do possess skill. At least, that is the gospel according to Inalytics, the specialist manager evaluation firm. It says that research it has carried out shows that...Read more
	Walkers Retraction	Apr 17/12
	An article previously published regarding Walkers Management Services incorrectly stated that Walkers settled a complaint for $9.29 million in Massachusetts. This was incorrect. All the cases in involving Walkers have been s...Read more
	Hedge fund inflows advance 0.35% in April	Apr 16/12
	Hedge fund flows as measured by the GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.35% in April. "Outflows tend to be seasonally higher at quarter ends as investors rebalance their portfolios," says Hans Hufschmid (pictu...Read more
	Hedge funds see silver lining in Dodd-Frank law	Apr 13/12
	Some hedge funds are seeing a silver lining in the Dodd-Frank law as it lifts the industry's veil of secrecy. After years of resisting closer governmental oversight, the $2 trillion industry grudgingly came to accept the ...Read more
	Hedge funds attracting cash in 2012 rebound	Apr 13/12
	Investors put more cash into hedge funds over the past month, data from hedge fund administrator GlobeOp shows, encouraged by a rebound in financial markets and better fund performance this year. Net inflows into hedge fu...Read more
	Analysis: Funds cut expenses lending hot stocks to shorters	Apr 13/12
	A string of frothy initial public offerings gave a surprise boost to some of their mutual fund shareholders in the first quarter. Some funds that bought into hot IPOs, like Zynga and Groupon, are boosting their returns by...Read more
	De-risking High On Pension Fund Agenda: Schroder Poll	Apr 12/12
	Schroders recently asked a group of pension funds their thoughts* on defined benefit strategies, governance and de-risking.Defined Benefits: Governance A little over half (56%) of the respondents revealed that the avera...Read more
	Hedge funds take in USD6.8bn in February	Apr 12/12
	Hedge funds took in an estimated USD6.8 billion in February, reversing a trend that saw more than USD21.5 billion flow out of these funds in January 2012 and December 2011, the largest outflows since July 2009, according to ...Read more
	Hedge Funds Off to Best Start in Six Years	Apr 11/12
	Hedge funds are off to their strongest start since 2006, with the average fund gaining 4.94% in the first quarter, according to data released Monday. But the industry’s performance still trailed U.S. stocks, which posted their ...Read more
	Private equity investors buy up illiquid hedge fund assets	Apr 11/12
	Private equity investors are moving in on hedge funds with illiquid assets they want to get off their hands in a switching of ‘problem assets' between sectors of the alternatives industry. Florian de Sigy (pictured),...Read more
	Hedge funds pick emerging markets for rates simplicity	Apr 11/12
	Hedge funds believe more predictable monetary policy in emerging markets is making it easier to profit from bond and currency bets there than in developed markets. Central banks in emerging markets face a classic trade-off b...Read more
	Hedge funds gain in first-quarter, but lag broader market-data	Apr 10/12
	Hedge funds posted their strongest start to the year since 2006 but still trailed the stock market's surge, largely because many managers began the new year with a more timidly positioned portfolio, data released on Monday s...Read more
	The Thin End Of The Hedge?	Apr 10/12
	The Hedge Fund Association, an international organisation that represents hedge funds, service providers and investors, has praised President Barak Obama for signing the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act and p...Read more
	Staying in tune	Apr 05/12
	Growing support for Opera, the risk transparency initiative, could indicate that the hedge fund industry’s traditionally autonomous members are becoming increasingly willing to collaborate. Could it be a sign of things ...Read more
	For some prominent hedge funds, a strong first quarter	Apr 05/12
	A handful of prominent hedge fund managers reported strong first quarter results after the industry recorded dismal returns in 2011, but only a few managed to top the performance of the rallying U.S. stock markets. Daniel...Read more
	Royal Bank of Canada acquires full ownership of RBC Dexia Investor Services	Apr 05/12
	Royal Bank of Canada is to acquire the 50 per cent stake that it does not already own of the joint venture RBC Dexia Investor Services Limited (RBC Dexia) from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg SA (BIL) (formerly Dexia Banq...Read more
	IIROC has produced an educational webcast...	Apr 04/12
	The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) has produced an educational webcast to provide insight into issues related to accredited investors. The 30-minute webcast released by IIROC e...Read more
	Hedge fund fury at Brussels directive	Apr 02/12
	Hedge funds and private equity firms are furious over what they see as an attempt by the European Commission to harden up controversial new regulations over alternative investments. ...Read more
	Schroders 'Talking Diversified Growth'	Apr 02/12
	Schroders is drawing attention to a new video in which Lauren Juliff interviews Johanna Kyrklund, head of multi asset investments, for an update on its diversified growth investment strategy. Highlights include...Read more
	Sprott Inc. Q4 earnings tumble 95%	Mar 29/12
	Sprott Inc. (TSX: SII) says its fourth quarter net income fell 95% while revenues also slipped as it booked a big year-end hit on performance fees amid weaker precious metals prices and stock market volatility. The Toronto...Read more
	Hedge Fund Man Group Launches Transparency Portal	Mar 29/12
	Man Group plc. (‘Man’), the $8 billion hedge fund investment manager, has launched Clarus, an online portal for investors in managed accounts to obtain greater transparency in their underlying investments. The financial cris...Read more
	Ontario to Boost OSC Enforcement	Mar 28/12
	The Ontario government plans changes to securities legislation to bolster the Ontario Securities Commission's enforcement capabilities. In the provincial budget released Tuesday, the government said it plans to propose ame...Read more
	Cayman Islands hedge fund reforms on-track	Mar 27/12
	Cayman Islands is extending the deadline for hedge fund operators to register their master funds, showing how delicate the balance is between improving financial regulation in the country, while not driving away hedge fund oper...Read more
	Hedge funds take profits after bumper Q1	Mar 27/12
	(Reuters) - Hedge funds are cashing in some of their chips after enjoying a bumper first quarter, wary that a sudden change in market sentiment could see them take the sort of losses suffered in last year's volatile markets. H...Read more