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Interactive Financial Adviser: Hedge Funds

IFAonline | 22 May 2012 | 11:18

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from Bern Square, Fund Catalyst and PiRho Consulting discussed Hedge Funds.

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The rise of alternative beta

Olivia Mayell, client portfolio adviser, global multi-asset group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, on how alternative beta is bringing hedge fund returns to the masses.

Professional Adviser | 19 Apr 2012 | 08:00
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FSA to reconsider promotion of UCIS

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review its restrictions on the marketing of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to retail investors as a result of proposed European rules.

IFAonline | 23 Jan 2012 | 15:20

Other hedge funds articles

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Is it time for platforms to risk-rate products?

Platforms have been accused of putting consumers at risk by permitting highly complex products on their panels. But isn’t suitability down to the adviser?

Professional Adviser | 19 Jan 2012 | 08:00
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Anger as hedge fund boss and Tory donor knighted

The government has come under fire for rewarding its "friends in the City" after it gave a knighthood to Paul Ruddock, founder of hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, in its New Year's honours list.

IFAonline | 02 Jan 2012 | 11:30
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Hedge fund compliance officer banned for post-Lehmans failings

The FSA has banned a hedge fund manager and fined him £14,000 for failing to spot attempts by an employee to hide huge losses caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

IFAonline | 22 Nov 2011 | 10:42
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The fund managers preferred by the super-rich

Millionaires favour hedge fund manager Paul Singer, CEO of Elliott Management, as the manager they trust most with their cash, according to an investment club survey.

IFAonline | 09 Nov 2011 | 15:00
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Hedge fund billionaire gets 11 years for insider trading

Hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam has received the longest ever prision sentence for insider trading after he was jailed for 11 years in a landmark ruling in the US today.

IFAonline | 13 Oct 2011 | 17:00
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Five things your clients will call you about this week

Nationals round-up: ETFs came under the microscope following the UBS scandal, while downturn-beating funds, retirement income and Halifax's savings accounts also featured.

IFAonline | 26 Sep 2011 | 09:15
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Terry Smith: ETFs - you were warned!

The losses of $2bn incurred by an allegedly rogue trader on the Delta One desk at UBS have again raised the subject of the (lack of) risk controls by banks dealing in opaque instruments, the need to separate investment and retail banking and the risks inherent in ETFs, says Terry Smith, chief executive of Fundsmith.

IFAonline | 16 Sep 2011 | 11:49
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Hedge fund duo banned for deceiving investors

A decision by the FSA to ban and fine the chief executive and chief financial officer of a hedge fund manager on grounds of deceiving investors has been upheld by the Upper Tribunal.

IFAonline | 15 Aug 2011 | 12:00

Japanese hedge funds buck losing trend

The latest report by Eurekahedge says while all regional mandates witnessed losses in June, the Eurekahedge Japan Hedge Fund Index was up 0.25%.

International Investment | 27 Jul 2011 | 07:30
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Merkel and Sarkozy in eleventh-hour Greece pact - today's papers

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have hammered out a common position on the euro debt crisis.

IFAonline | 21 Jul 2011 | 07:15

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