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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.   |
Bank Technology News
November 2004
Shane Kite |
Trading: Direct Execution Players Get Beefy Banks and brokers are stocking up on tech and management tools, bundling direct access with algorithmic trading, as the industry gets more competitive than ever. |
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
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. |
Bank Technology News
September 2004
Michael Sisk |
Trading: Direct Execution Goes Mainstream The need to offer direct execution is all the greater now that the New York Stock Exchange is pushing ahead with it's Direct Plus program. |
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
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
April 30, 2007
Ivy Schmerken |
Unexpected Surge in Trading Volumes and Volatility Raises Infrastructure Concerns for Hedge Funds The market decline of Feb. 27 has prompted hedge funds to rethink their trading infrastructures to ensure they can cope with higher volumes and volatility. |
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
July 1, 2005
Ivy Schmerken |
The New Sell-Side Trader: Execution Consultant Brokers are morphing into execution consultants to advise the buy side on selecting algorithms and measuring performance. But how will the sell side reinvent the institutional sales trader? |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 24, 2006
Paul Allen |
Trading Gets Exotic As the search for higher returns and diversification has sparked a surge in alternative investments, financial firms are working to establish a technology infrastructure capable of managing an acceptable balance between risk and reward. |
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Dave Tsujimoto |
In Defense of Hedge Funds Here's why any rep with high-net-worth clients ought to become familiar with the nuances of hedge funds. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 5, 2005
Maria Santos |
The Cost of Compliance The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has come under scrutiny again following the adoption of a recent rule regarding hedge funds. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 26, 2004
Jonathan Beyman |
Dear CIO... The author is chief of operations and technology at Lehman Brothers, as well as an executive vice president. In addition, he has served as the firm's CIO since 2000. Read some questions and answers from his point of view. |
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. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
November 2003
Alan Lavine |
Alternate Ways To Hedge Portfolios Should you put your well-heeled clients into unregistered or registered hedge funds? Or is it better to select a mutual fund that uses hedge-fund tactics and is managed by a registered investment company? |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Goldman's Profit Explosion Goldman hasn't lost its golden touch, as seen with its end-of-the-year results for 2006. It's tough for individual investors to participate in these areas, but investing in Goldman Sachs is one way to get some exposure to them. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Firm Offers Reps Their Own Hedge Funds Independent broker-dealer First Allied's program raises questions about risk and conflicts. |
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... |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Goldman Sachs Still Has Luster Investors, forget the analyst chatter -- Goldman is still a winner. |
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. |
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. |
CFO
October 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is Goldman Move a Bullish Bet or a Bailout? Goldman announced a $3 billion investment in a struggling hedge fund. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Investment Banking Business: Money Management These days, investment banks do much more than just investment banking. In addition to traditional asset management they're getting involved in hedge funds and private equity. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005
Justin Hibbard |
Options Trading Grows Up Electronic systems are making the market more efficient and alluring to investors. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
October 29, 2008
Penny Crosman |
U.S. Hedge Funds to Cut IT Spending 40%, to $882 Million New Tabb study finds hedge funds will make drastic IT cutbacks, although more than 75% want to trade multiple asset classes electronically. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 22, 2007
Ivy Schmerken |
Goldman Sachs and Other Brokers Develop Alternative Research Platforms to Advise Buy-Side As the buy-side unbundles the cost of research and executions, brokers are partnering with alternative research providers. Could it cannibalize their own proprietary research? |
BusinessWeek
July 9, 2007 |
In Defense Of Hedge Funds A high-net-worth investment adviser takes on those who say the glory days of hedge fund investment opportunities are over. |
Financial Advisor
May 2004
Gene Swanzey |
Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
HedgeWorld: And So It Begins Now that the 111th Congress has been seated and the 44th President of the United States inaugurated, the first stirrings of hedge fund legislation and increased regulation have been sighted. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2004
Tim Beyers |
SEC Hedges on Funds The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in a hotly contested battle, chose to force more regulation on the fund industry. A new rule requires hedge funds to register. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Robert Schmidt |
The Charmed Life of Hedge Funds As banks get a tighter leash, funds may remain lightly regulated |
