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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 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 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 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.
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.
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 July 7, 2009 Melanie Rodier	Wall Street Adjusts to Transparency Demands Calls for transparency from regulators, investors and even financial firms aren't about to subside anytime soon. Technology is key to helping Wall Street respond.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	WS&T Presents the Capital Markets Outlook 2010 Wall Street & Technology editors examine the top 10 trends that will shape the capital markets in the coming year.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Registered Rep. August 17, 2005 Kevin Burke	NASD Tightens Noose on Hedge Fund Sales Practices A top National Association of Security Dealers official said on Wednesday that the regulatory agency has launched an investigation into brokers selling hedge funds to individual investors without alerting them to the potential risks.
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.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2011 Diana Britton	When Investing in Hedge Funds, Don't Aim For Home Runs Hedge funds and other alternative strategies can provide a reasonable rate of return and lower or negative correlations to stocks and bonds, but they can also carry greater risk.
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.
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.
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 May 20, 2008 Cory Levine	Riskdata Offers New Version of FOFix For version 3.1 of the risk management service for hedge funds, Riskdata partnered with hedge fund database vendors.
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2003	"Is Elliot Spitzer Here?" Fidelity's president for the Asia-Pacific and Japan region predicts a continued growth in outsourcing demanded by hedge funds, which traditionally piggy-back on the infrastructure and lending capabilities of prime brokers for their trading.
Wall Street & Technology April 14, 2006 Anthony Guerra	Assembling the Risk Puzzle For Fairfield Greenwich Group, aggregating an accurate risk picture across externally managed vehicles requires flexible solutions.
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.
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 November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken	New Regulatory Requirements Require Data On-Demand With a plethora of proposed regulations in the pipeline, financial services firms are facing more strenuous audits and data reporting requirements that could result in penalties if firms get them wrong.
Wall Street & Technology January 22, 2008 Sabatini & Smirnoff	Trade Reporting, Surveillance Key To Compliance With increased regulatory focus on protecting securities market participants, trade reporting and trade surveillance are key to providing transparency, efficiency and oversight for today's trading environment.
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006	Hedgies Open Their Wallets A new survey finding reflects the large camp of hedge fund managers that believes new SEC registration rules are only the first step in a broader regulatory framework envisioned by the SEC.
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?
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	Dark Pools Seek Limited Transparency Dark pools provide investors with a valuable venue for trading large blocks of securities, but regulations may change the way market participants interact with anonymous trading venues in 2010.
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.
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Homing In On Trading Abuses Do allegations that a UBS worker sold info to hedge funds signal a growing problem?
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.
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 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.
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 September 23, 2005	Product Watch: Adobe Integrates Financial Documents Enterprisewide, and More Adobe LiveCycle Designer... Dynamic Hedge Fund Analysis... Business Continuity Messaging...
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.
Financial Planning August 1, 2011 Suzanne McGee	Hedging the Risk It's hard for most advisors to undertake the level of due diligence required to figure out which hedge fund managers can genuinely add alpha, and which ones are breaking the law.
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.
Investment Advisor March 2007 Melanie Waddell	States' Rights The North American Securities Administrators Association's agenda includes preserving state regulators' authority.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Alternative Investment Tools As hedge funds gain wider acceptance in the wealth-management space, investment advisers struggle to determine how they fit into their clients' portfolios.
Insurance & Technology August 26, 2004 Johannah Rodgers	The Next Generation Numbers Game Increasing sensitivity to compliance and cost issues is resulting in a renewed focus on back-end systems for insurance carriers.