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Institutional investors’ shift from 60/40 portfolios into hedge funds is continuing, according to research by the AIMA Investor Steering Committee (ISC).

This comes as a growing number of investors use hedge funds to meet risk-adjusted...

Hedge funds have been advised to seek reassurance from Bloomberg that they have not been subject to any data privacy breaches in light of revelations that the company’s journalists had inappropriate access to terminal data.

It was revealed...

Morgan Creek Capital Management, the US asset manager, is to acquire the $700 million funds of funds business of fixed income specialist Signet Capital Management as the industry continues to consolidate.

The deal, which is subject to...

Hedge funds experienced the slowest rate of growth to the start of a year, with just $5.8 billion of net inflows entering the asset class in 2013, according to eVestment.

The report added these inflows accounted for a mere 0.2% growth...

Bill Prew of INDOS Financial continues his monthly blog of AIFMD developments.

There are now just over 60 days to go until the 22 July 2013 AIFMD implementation date. It has been a busy month since the last update and, as a result, this...

Among the many risks fund managers are too busy to monitor is sub-custody risk. Yet any manager who trades or invests in foreign securities markets is dependent on the financial stability as well as the operational calibre of the sub-custodian...

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...