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Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	Investors Demand Hedge Fund Transparency Institutional investors are already demanding more transparency from hedge funds. Not to be outdone, regulators are readying new rules for hedge fund reporting.
Wall Street & Technology April 20, 2007 Ivy Schmerken	Hedge Funds Are Focusing On Disaster Recovery Following the Recent Market Volatility Fund advisory firms have become more conscious of disaster recovery and business continuity to back up applications and data since the February market decline.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Ivy Schmerken	Black-Box Trading Raises Risk As black-box trading increases, hedge funds are executing orders at a rapid pace by drawing on their credit relationships with prime brokers.
Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	CIO Challenge As hedge funds soar, winning their order flow has become more vital than ever. To compete for that business, brokers and other providers need to offer hedge fund managers wider access to markets and trading products, and break down silos to improve integration.
Wall Street & Technology February 27, 2005 Paul Allen	Hedge Fund Services Heat Up "In my view, prime brokers and [hedge] fund administrators will increasingly find themselves competing in the same space in terms of the services they can offer," says Rob Schultz, head of HSBC's alternative fund services for North America.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006 Paul Allen	Prime Time for Primes Once an esoteric business controlled by three players, the prime brokerage business has become a hotbed of competition as rival banks and brokers have sought to profit from the hedge fund explosion.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Bringing in Business Attracting hedge funds as customers is a priority this year for the majority of sell-side firms. As hedge funds approach $1 trillion in assets, these non-traditional investment vehicles have become the latest buy-side heavyweight.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2005 Maria Wakem	Hedge Fund Accounting San Francisco-based Advent Software released Advent for Global Hedge Funds, a trading, partnership and fund accounting solution for large, complex funds.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn	How Super Are Hedge Funds? They're today's happening investment, but advisers and clients who are swooning over hedge funds should bear in mind that there are many reasons these super-investments don't deserve their glorified image.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Attracting Order Flow Given the amount of trading activity hedge funds generate, competition for their order flow is heating up.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007 Larry Tabb	Today's Money Managers Are Leveraging Funds Into Alternative Investment Products The number of short positions will increase as more fund managers employ leverage. Traditional buy-side managers would need the technology and risk management expertise to effectively manage these more-leveraged positions.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Lessons From Amaranth There's a lot to learn from the hedge fund's prodigious collapse. Amaranth's stunning demonstration of the speed with which a hedge fund can come undone will certainly have cooled investor enthusiasm for other such offerings.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Cory Levine	Hedge Funds Say Technology Is Critical to Business Hedge funds are focusing their technology efforts on improving automation around OTC derivatives, as well as adding collateral management technology and exerting better control over prime brokerage charges and rates, according to a new Aite survey.
Financial Advisor May 2004 Gene Swanzey	Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns.
Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Online FX Systems Eye STP As e-foreign-exchange-trading portals vie for volume, hedge funds and STP solutions are on the radar screen.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2010 Andrew Bond	Will Hedge Fund Investors Panic Next? Be mindful of institutional positions to protect your portfolio. This past week marked the 15th in a row in which money flowed out of U.S. stock mutual funds, a new record, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Financial Advisor August 2005 Leola Ross	Hedge Funds Are Suffering And How They Can Recover Some say hedge funds, which sprang into prominence and popularity in the wake of the 2000 stock market crash, are on the decline. But before we doom the entire hedge-fund industry, we need to examine what has gone awry and assess whether there is hope for the future.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2006 John Finneran	Hedge Fund Wizards Money managers cast spells over the market -- and reap huge rewards. Hedge funds operate in a haze. Penetrating how they earn returns and take risks is tough, but is a good exercise for investors.
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 D. Quinn Mills	The Problem with Hedge Funds Hedge funds are the New Big Thing -- and that's bad for the average investor, says professor D. Quinn Mills. An excerpt from Wheel, Deal, and Steal.
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Laura Cohn	Europe's Pension Plans: Switching Over To Hedge Funds More institutional investors are going for higher returns -- and higher risks.
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Ivy Schmerken	Hedging the Risk of Instant Messaging While hedge funds enjoy the simplicity of trading via IM networks, compliance and reliability concerns have them seeking IM products with built-in archival systems.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn	Hedge Funds Redux Despite a midsummer month's nightmare, hedge funds are still pointing to successful records and raking in money.
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2006 Govind Sandhu	Beyond Registration Persistent compliance efforts may be one of the most critical investments in the success of today's hedge funds.
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Angel Ubide	Demystifying Hedge Funds In an effort to soothe worries about transparency and supervision, public authorities are trying to develop new approaches to meet the public's need for financial system stability and investor protection while enabling investors to enjoy the benefits that hedge funds bring to financial markets.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005	Hedge Funds Set to Boil Investors looking to beat the average returns of the market will be heading to hedge funds and funds of hedge funds even more in the future, says new research.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Larry Tabb	Risk in a Real-Time World The world is getting riskier. Not only has geopolitical strife changed compliance risk, but new trading, governance and capital-allocation mechanisms are changing traditional risk measures as well.
CFO October 1, 2010 Alix Stuart	Thinking Outside the Stocks Corporate pension funds look to alternatives for funding boosts.
Investment Advisor January 2008 Jeff Joseph	The Year in Hedge Funds In a year marked by high volatility in the financial markets, the 10 strategies tracked by the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outperformed major global equity indexes and experienced lower volatility than the overall markets.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Savita Iyer	Transatlantic Teachers Hedge funds are big news in the U.S., but old news in Europe. What can we learn from Europe's approach to hedge funds?
Knowledge@Wharton February 26, 2003	The Perils of Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge fund products are increasingly available to a broader audience than previously had access to this asset class. A barrage of news reports focused on hedge fund fraud and blowups raises the idea that regulation might provide a useful fix. So should hedge funds be regulated? No.
Wall Street & Technology December 4, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Vhayu Co-Founder Chadha Heads to Nirvana Financial Chadha aims to enable the provider of technology for global hedge funds to take full advantage of available global market data while minimizing latency.
Wall Street & Technology May 15, 2006 Anthony Guerra	The Best of Both Worlds Consumers often face a difficult decision choosing between two similar items. It's only natural, then, that the manufacturer of each product would try to adopt the best features of the other. Such seems to be the case these days with mutual funds and hedge funds.
Wall Street & Technology June 13, 2006	SunGard Upgrades Platform The newest version of InvesTier provides domestic and offshore hedge funds and funds of funds with partnership accounting, fee calculation and equalization accounting capabilities.
Registered Rep. February 20, 2006 Kevin Burke	MFS Chairman Blasts Hedge Funds at NICSA Confab The chairman of fund complex MFS Investment Management is calling for the formation of a task force to overhaul performance reporting for hedge funds.
Investment Advisor August 2005 Jeff Joseph	Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Institutions Are Still Committed Two recent surveys provide insights into the current state of hedge funds and their longer-term performance.
Wall Street & Technology February 15, 2007 Cory Levine	RFA's eHarbor Backs Up Hedge Fund E-Mail New York-based hedge fund solutions specialist Richard Fleischman & Associate released eHarbor, an e-mail data backup and restoration solution designed specifically with hedge funds in mind.
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007	Superderivatives Launches SD-Funds, an Online Multi-Asset Derivatives Platform Designed for hedge fund and asset managers, the platform includes all pre-trade and post-trade activities covering all asset and derivatives classes.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Neil O'Hara	Dearth of Easy Pickings? Now that retail investors are able to partake of hedge funds in unprecedented numbers, some are calling hedge investing a bubble about to be popped... Largest SEC Registered Funds of Funds... Hedge Fund Index Performance...
Investment Advisor June 2010	The Seed Investors' Hedge Fund Opportunity The next generation of hedge fund managers is much more process-driven and institutionally minded than pre-crisis managers.
Registered Rep. January 8, 2010 Halah Touryalai	A Hedge Fund Resurgence There is legislation in Congress that would require hedge funds to make greater disclosures about the details of their operations. The increased regulation coupled with a recent uptick in hedge fund performance will likely entice some advisors to put their clients back into hedge funds.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2008 Rich Duprey	Hedge Funds Ask: Where's the Love? It's been a long, strange trip since the hedge fund industry's summer-of-love confab.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Alexander M. Ineichen	Debunking the Myths that Dog Hedge Funds Probably because hedge fund managers have gotten fabulously wealthy and are secretive (guiltily so), a body of untruths has sprung up. Of course, much of it is built on anecdotal evidence, oversimplification, myopia or simple misrepresentation of fact.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Evan Simonoff	The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Dan Wheeler	Hedge Funds, Unplugged Take the buzz out of the hedge fund phenomenon, and you may find less electricity than you think.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Welcome to the Hedge Fund Maelstrom Who will get sucked down next? As the volatility in the hedge fund market increases, more hedge funds are claiming big losses on the year. Some have taken bad enough losses to discuss closing out funds.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Ronald W. Roge	To Hedge or Not to Hedge The underlying premise of hedge funds, to reduce volatility in a portfolio, is not in itself flawed. What can we do, as fiduciaries, to use them to achieve the performance necessary to meet our clients' long-term financial objectives?
Entrepreneur April 2007 Scott Bernard Nelson	Shed Light Are hedge funds leaving you in the dark? Morningstar's extensive database might be a good place to start your research.
Registered Rep. August 26, 2011 Stan Luxenberg	Hedge Funds Now Going for Institutional Money Instead of HNW Individuals While hedge funds once catered primarily to wealthy individuals, now the main clients are pensions and institutions. That shift is forcing hedge funds to change the way they operate.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Will Galleon Run These Stocks Aground? The hedge fund's recent scandal has investors scurrying.
Financial Advisor November 2005 Bruce W. Fraser	Hedge Funds Continue To Mushroom While the sector is experiencing growing pains and a high mortality rate, the major challenge hedge funds face today is building capacity to meet growing demand for higher returns from institutions and high-net-worth individuals.