At a Yale-hosted roundtable on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, professor of economics, Robert Shiller, said the success of the Act, and the agencies created to study aspects of the market, will depend on appointing the right people, who should be willing to take advice from his fellow economists. Click here to read more.
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The US-based Hedge Fund Association, which last year opened a UK chapter in competition with the established Alternative Investment Management Association, has now started a Cayman Islands offshoot. HFA announced this week that the new chapter was a response to demand from Cayman-based hedge fund participants and reflected the importance of the zone as a
Corporate governance program victim of new allocation model at CalPERS
CalPERS’ outperforming internal corporate governance investments program will be challenged by the fund’s new capital allocation model, according to a review of the program by consultant Wilshire.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
As hedge funds recover lost ground, the big are getting bigger
The hedge fund industry has taken a well-publicised caning over the past few years but, as the dust starts to settle on the global financial crisis, some interesting and probably long-lasting trends are emerging. Principle among these is a massive increase in concentration of mandates among the larger hedge funds.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Investor behaviour erodes performance
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Investors win with new hedge fund fee model
Hermes BPK, the hedge fund-of-funds (HFoF) provider majority-owned by Hermes Fund Managers (which itself is fully-owned by the UK’s largest pension fund, the BT Pension Scheme), has completed work on an innovative performance fee model which will allow investors to clawback any unearned performance fees.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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