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Retail investors could pile up to $939 billion into liquid alternatives by 2017, or three times today’s levels, according to a study by Citi Prime Finance.

The report – ...

The European Commission and European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have been urged to be non-prescriptive and more transparent on proposed third-country equivalency rules contained in the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR...

Uptake of Albourne Partners’ OPERA (Open Protocol Enabling Risk Aggregation), an in-depth risk reporting tool, is likely to be given a boost by Solvency II, a senior executive has said.

Solvency II requires insurers allocating into hedge...

Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services has unveiled an online tool to help streamline the Form PF submission process.

The system provides an interactive, online workflow tool for compiling, reviewing and finalising Form PF filings. The toolkit...

SALT 2013

The decision, back in 2009, by Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital, to host a lavish hedge fund conference in Las Vegas amid the most sustained bear market since the 1930s, did raise...

Institutional investors must do their best to mitigate the danger of headline risk in their allocations, warned an executive from the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the $161.5 billion pension fund.  

This comes as...

John Paulson, the legendary hedge fund manager, has urged investors to remain patient with gold despite the asset class suffering severe losses of late, according to sources attending his off-the-record speech at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas...

Hedge funds must ensure overlapping data points contained in multi-jurisdictional and multi-agency reporting documentation is aligned or face scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during on-site inspections, an executive from...

Funds of funds are showing signs of recovery while investor enthusiasm for hedge funds adopting 40 Act structures is likely to increase, panellists at the annual SALT Conference in Las Vegas have said.

“The funds of funds, which survived...

The dreaded Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) comes into force on 22 July. Only 55 of the 80 days between now and then are weekdays. If your fund has European investors, that means you have to appoint a depositary (or...