Middle East Hedge Fund Event

Hedge Funds Review – Middle East Summit

The editorial and conference teams at Hedge Funds Review are proud to announce that our 4th Annual Middle East Summit will once again be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Spa, Bahrain on November 11-12th 2008.

Last year’s event was hugely successful, bringing together over 250 key players in the alternative investment landscape. More than 70% of delegates were end investors.

Highlights included official endorsement from the Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain and guest speeches from some of the most successful hedge fund managers from across the globe.

This year the keynote address will be given by HE Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa, Minister of Finance for Bahrain and chairman of the Mumtalakat Holding Company. We will also be hearing an update on regulations from the Central Bank of Bahrain, particularly on how the recent collective investment undertaking (CIU) rules have affected hedge fund investment in the region, as well as a chance to hear about the recently launched Al Safi Shariah compliant investment platform.

Throughout the two-day programme we will have expert managers discussing individual investment strategies. These include commodities, managed futures, emerging markets and many others. We also have leading academics sharing their views on the global credit crisis and the affect this will have on the Gulf region.

Full information on the programme and our outstanding speaker line-up can be found here – www.hedgefundsreview.com/middleeast

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Weak Dollar

Weak US Dollar – Video Post

Here is a quick video on foreign currency exchange, and why a weak US Dollar can benefit some large multi-national corporations. This is a very simple easy to understand video on this issue.

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Hedge Fund Investment Mistakes

Top 4 Hedge Fund Investment Mistakes

There are many good and bad reasons to invest in hedge funds. Below are 4 of the most common hedge fund investment mistakes that I see or hear talked about by hedge fund managers, family offices and financial advisors. Each of these points are cautions on not any form of financial advice or recommendation recommendations on investing with any particular hedge fund strategy.

1. Investing based on emotions, market heights and excitement. Investing based on a hunch or short term trend can help find new ideas or hedge fund managers with unique perspectives but without thorough due diligence can lead to working with sub-par managers.
2. Chasing high returns. Many un-experienced Investors don’t ask themselves often enough – at what risk were those returns gained? What risks am I comfortable in taking on? Etc. This is why a wealth management firm or family office or consultant can be critical to making sure you are making wise investment choices for your unique situation, goals and needs.
3. Investing with friends – Many times you may not see the forest while being asked for money from a friend. The truth is that many hedge funds do not survive in the long-term. They are not asking to borrow a book, this is your hard earned money. If you can’t afford to lose the money you might not want to invest it in a hedge fund or at least a friend’s hedge fund at all.
4. “Hedge Fund Rich” – Thinking that a single – all eggs in one basket bet is going to make you rich. This rarely happens, the average hedge fund does beat the S&P but is far from returning the types of returns you sometimes read about in the papers. The most popular mainstream media outlets like to focus on the extreme because it sells newspapers, it draws eye balls. Most hedge fund managers are not frauds and most do not return 56% returns for their investors. Make sure and conduct industry-wide research from Databases and not just WSJ articles and coffee table talk with friends. Thorough due diligence and hard numbers trump all opinions.

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Quick Link: List of Hedge Fund Prime Brokers

FinAlternatives recently completed a great prime brokerage survey/report where they discussed how the highly-publicized hedge fund blowups, the Bear Stearnes collapse and the mortgage crisis have forced the prime brokerage industry to adapt more diligence in hedge funds’ risk exposure and leverage. Institutional investors are increasingly demanding hedge funds to have greater transparency, and hedge funds have passed much of this responsibility to prime brokers. Hedge funds are now employing multiple prime brokers and are more demanding of the services the brokers offer.

Many of the larger hedge funds hoping to minimize exposure are moving fully-paid assets from prime brokers to banks. The larger hedge funds cut third-party risk by financing long positions exclusively through a bank. On the other hand, smaller and mid-size hedge funds are struggling to secure lending and prime brokers. It is especially difficult for small single-strategy hedge funds to find a prime broker, as prime brokers favor the diversified multi-strategy funds.

Recent turbulence in the hedge fund industry has led investors to demand greater transparency of managers. Managers have relayed this responsibility to prime brokers, who have evolved to provide improved risk analytics and add more services to their clients.

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Foreign Currency Exchange

Foreign Currency Exchange Trends Video

Here is a quick video on foreign currency exchange, and why a weak US Dollar can benefit some large multi-national corporations. This is a very simple easy to understand video on this issue.

If you are viewing this post via my daily hedge fund newsletter please click here to watch the video now.

Tired of reading articles? Watch more videos like this one above within the Hedge Fund Videos Directory.

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Economic Crises

Economic Crises – Video Post

Below is a short video on the economic crises, trends affecting the economy and how the US government recently bailed out Bear Stearns. Much of this talk refers to the need for the economy to pull back in order to grow in a healthy way in the future.

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Here is a short video on asset backed securities. These are sometimes referred to as mortgage-backed securities and are not often understood by the common investor. This video provides a great introduction to the topic.

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Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies – Hedge Fund Profile

Here is a collection of links to resources and articles on the hedge fund – Renaissance Technologies. All of these sources below are publicly available and can be easily found by anyone via Google searches. They are listed here for those who would like to skip the junk and learn more about Renaissance Technologies more efficiently than they might through Google alone.
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Resource #1: 5.18.09) Most hedge funds flourished in April. Renaissance Technologies took a bath.

The Long Island firm’s Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund lost between 8.33% and 9.47% last month, depending on the share class. The fund, RenTech’s largest, is now down between 16.86% and 17.61%, according to a letter to investors obtained by Dealbreaker. source

Resource #1: (4.3.09) James Simons, the founder of New York-based Renaissance Technologies, was the top earning hedge fund manager last year, earning $2.5bn in spite of the extreme market volatility, as his 20-year-old flagship fund generated a net return of 80 per cent.

A survey by Alpha Magazine, published on Wednesday, describes the returns generated by the Medallion Fund as “hard to fathom”, adding that Mr Simons’ fees are among the highest in the world – a 5 per cent management fee and a 44 per cent performance fee. source

Resource #2: (2.4.09) Renaissance Technologies LLC, the multibillion dollar hedge fund known for delivering top returns by relying on complicated computer models, hired a new president and chief executive officer for its institutional business.

The fund firm, which manages roughly $20 billion, said on Tuesday that it has hired Matthew Scanlan to replace Stephen Robert, who retired from the firm. source

Resource #3 (1.5.09) Over the past few weeks you probably saw signs in retail stores touting “big sales” with discounts of 50% to 70& off. It seems that Wall Street has caught on to main street’s way of doing business – discounts, discounts, discounts!

The Renaissance Technologies LLC, a large hedge fund, has waived all of its management fees for 2009. Originally it charged a 1% fixed management fee, but with the new policy it will take a $30 million dollar haircut. However, the other larger Simon’s Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund will not cut its management fee in 2009. Other funds are using similar practices. The Citadel Investment Group LLC gave back about $300 million dollars in fees it collected in 2008.

Renaissance, like many other hedge funds, suffered losses in 2008 ranging from 12% to 16% but managed to beat the S & P losses by 4-6%. source

Additional Resources

• Letter from Renaissance Technologies how Renaissance Technologies had only 1 percent profit in 2007.
• Article summary how Renaissance Technologies has high fees, but had generated 85 percent returns.
• Article: Jim Simmons Institutional Equities Fund has been down $13 billion dollars.
• SEC may put a new law against short-selling without borrowing, which would hurt any computer based trading hedge fund, like Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund.
• Article about how CEO’s and Portfolio Managers make too much money- James Simons led the way, earning $1.5 billion.
• Interesting Article about how Renaissance technologies are the 4th largest share holders of Cornerstone Total Return Fund.
• In 2004, Jim Simons, sued two former employees and Millennium Partners, the fund they subsequently joined for using secret trading techniques learned from Renaissance Technologies.
• Article about The Institutional Equities Fund went down $13 billion dollars because investors are scared of recession.
• Article about how Renaissance Technologies opened up in India as a foreign institutional investor.
• Background information on how Renaissance Technologies- Nova Fund contributes today for at least 14% of the total volume of shares in NASDAQ.
• Amazing chart about Renaissance Technologies. Everything from what type of stocks the corporation has to the best and worst moves the company has made to date.
• Extremely interesting article about how Renaissance Technologies chooses each stock to invest into based on certain criteria.
• Article about Jim Simmons donating 60 million to Stony Brook University.
• Renaissance Technologies owns $127,000,000 worth of Sony.
• PowerPoint Presentation about the Medallion fund. Also defines simple hedge fund terms.
• Article about many different hedge funds. Short paragraph about the medallion fund, institutional equities fund. The Institutional fund lost about 3% in July of 2007.
• Article about how Renaissance technologies Nova Fund would end up building up to 10-15% of NASDAQ’s trading volume on a given trading day.

- Richard

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Financial Certification

Financial Certification in Hedge Funds

Here is the result of a recent interview I completed with the Financial Times regarding the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) and Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Designation, a new financial certification. Thanks to Fintag for the friendly (overly friendly) plug over on his blog here.

Here is a short excerpt from the Financial Times article:

“Students can receive qualifications for almost anything, be it a “maple syrup” course at New York’s Alfred University or “cyberfeminism” at Cornell. Basic economics teaches that so long as there is demand and resources, supply will shortly follow.

Richard Wilson, founder of the Hedge Fund Group (HFG), a professional networking organisation, witnessed a demand for a programme dedicated to the study of hedge funds. This discovery led to the Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Designate initiative. Mr Wilson previously worked for a currency and commodity hedge fund and a fund of funds in South Africa before joining a hedge fund marketing firm.

The charter he has helped create is a programme designed to prepare students for life in a hedge fund. “It will also save two-thirds of training on the job and enable them to walk right in and know what is going on,” says Mr Wilson.

The Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst are well established rival programmes. The CHFA project, launched in mid-July, is designed to be similar, but not a copy of others…. An online training forum provides career advice, CV checks, and access to a directory of managing directors and recruiters for students. Students gain admission to the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) and its 9,000 members.

The charter received roughly 900 applications for the first year, but intake was limited to 100…. “The Hedge Fund Group (HFG) team has been fabulous. They answer every question quickly, accurately and professionally. It’s this stuff that, quite simply, builds credibility,” says, Sameer Vishwanathan, a new student of the CHP Designation Program.”

Here is the full article.

Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Links

• Top 10 Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Designation Benefits
• Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Overview
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• CHP FAQ
• CHP Study Guide
• CHP Registration

- Richard

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San Francisco Hedge Fund Guide

Hedge Funds in San Francisco

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Here is a short collection of articles on the hedge fund industry in San Francisco. I am always looking for more valuable online tools and resources to add to these geographical hedge fund guides to the hedge fund industry. If you have a white paper or PowerPoint that I can include here please send me an email and I will post it for everyone’s benefit.

• To obtain a list of hedge fund contact details for funds within the state of California please see this link: List of Hedge Funds in California.
• San Francisco chapter of the non-profit organization called Hedge Funds Care
• Interesting articles about two San Francisco hedge funds and their recent success. While the west coast hosts few hedge funds compared to the east California and more specifically California is where the recent action has been out west.
• Global turmoil effecting hedge funds everywhere, including San Francisco.
• San Francisco, CA hedge fund firm pays $30 Million in court settlement
• Article: “The Best Investment Advice you’ll ever get”
• CFA Society of San Francisco, CA Society Events.
  
• Jobs in the hedge fund industry in San Francisco, California
• An interesting article about San Francisco’s very own Farallon Capital Management, a leading hedge fund manager in California.
• Another article about Farallon Capital Management and its new unique investments
• A short article a top hedge fund in California investing in India
• Hedge Fund World events in San Francisco, CA
• Students seek greater disclosure from San Francisco hedge fund

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Email Newsletter Tool

Start A Hedge Fund Related Newsletter

Even though almost everyone uses email now not many firms in the hedge fund industry provide a consistent weekly, monthly or even quarterly email newsletter. Why? Because it takes a little bit of trial and error and some consistent work to produce the fresh content for each new issue.

Providing an email newsletter can provide a competitive advantage for your firm as you are able to keep on top of minds of prospects, be seen as a thought leader in your space, have your newsletter forwarded on to other prospects and show your level of niche expertise. I have found email newsletter by the best way to keep in touch with everyone that I have met through this hedge fund blog, my Hedge Fund Blog Book downloads and Hedge Fund Group (HFG).

One of the leading email newsletter management firms is Aweber. Aweber is used by over 1,000 firms worldwide and I have been satisfied with their easy-to-use service and quick online customer service. It is relatively easy to get started. After playing around with settings for 20-30 minutes most people would be ready to test sending out their own email newsletter using one of their graphical templates or just using traditional plain text formatting:

Click here now to see what they offer: Aweber Email Newsletter Services

Note: Certain restrictions apply to email advertisements or newsletters if you are a hedge fund manager or offer certain types of investment advice, recommendations, etc. Please consult a legal expert or in-house compliance counsel for advice before starting your email campaign.

- Richard

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Small Hedge Funds

Interview on Small Hedge Funds

I recently completed two interviews. One with the Financial Times and another short interview for an article being written on small hedge funds with less than $100M in assets under management.

Here is a short excerpt of this second article and link to the full article:

The storm over Wall Street has abated somewhat, but the tide of bad news is receding slowly, complicating life for hedge fund managers and the rest of the financial industry. “The credit crunch continues,” said Ed Grebeck, CEO of Tempus Advisors in Stamford, Conn.

While large institutions have endured round after round of pain, scores of small, relatively unknown hedge funds, or largely unregulated pools of investments, have quietly worked through the turmoil. These smaller funds continue to score better returns than their bigger, more-seasoned peers, which control the majority of hedge fund assets.

The average return of small funds was 11.74 percent through last December, according to a hedge fund index compiled by New York-based PerTrac Financial Solutions. Medium- and large-sized funds returned 10.27 percent and 10.22 percent respectively.

“Smaller funds have historically been more profitable than big hedge funds,” said PerTrac Managing Director Meredith Jones from Nashville. The study defined small funds as those with less than $100 million in managed assets. Medium-sized funds were defined as those with $100 million to $500 million in managed assets, with anything over the $500 million mark considered large.

“There are thousands of hedge fund managers out there managing between $10 million and $100 million,” said hedge fund consultant Richard Wilson in an email. “Lots of hard work entrepreneurs who are rarely mentioned.”

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Middle Office Jobs

Middle Office Job & Operations Jobs Available

Just a short note that I’ve posted two new open hedge fund positions to the Finance and Accounting Job section of my Hedge Fund Job Listings page.

The first is a Hedge Fund Operations Associate position and the other is a Hedge Fund Middle Office Associate position. To view both please see this page: Finance and Accounting Jobs.

- Richard

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Hedge Fund Attorney

Hedge Fund Law Firm Directory Listings

Malik Law Group is a boutique, full service law firm specializing in investment partnerships and companies (commonly known as Investment Funds or Hedge Funds). The Firm provides legal guidance and advice on all aspects of the global investment management industry. The firm is primarily focused on, but is not limited to, assisting clients in the formation of both domestic and offshore investment partnerships and companies, ensuring compliance with applicable state, federal, and international laws and regulations, and preparing all of the relevant documents to set up the entity efficiently. For more information please reach Bilal Malik at 404.736.3642, bilal.malik@maliklawgroup.com or through http://maliklawgroup.com/
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At the Investment Law Group we have substantial experience forming and structuring a wide variety of investment funds including hedge funds, offshore funds, fund of funds, master feeder structures, commodity pools, private equity funds, and registered investment companies. We also advise on all aspects of fund operations, registration, and compliance matters for registered investment advisers, registered investment companies, investment advisory agreements, and agreements with other service providers and placement agents. For more information please visit http://investmentlawgroup.com/index.php?option=com_performs&Itemid=71&formid=1 or contact Brent Gillett directly at 404-607-6940 or BGillett@investmentlawgroup.com.
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Armor Compliance:  New proposed federal legislation that has strong support requires all investment advisers with more than $30 million under management to register under the Investment Advisers Act and appoint a chief compliance officer. Armor Compliance (info@armorcompliance.com) will offer comprehensive compliance services and an experienced, highly-qualified chief compliance officer (“CCO”) on a part time basis for investment advisers to hedge funds and private equity funds who will need to register under the Advisers Act. The business is geared toward investment advisers who do not have the resources to hire a full time CCO yet feel uncomfortable giving such important tasks to a current employee without sufficient legal and compliance experience or knowledge of the Advisers Act and the other constantly changing U.S. securities laws. All of the CCOs of Armor Compliance have had significant experience dealing with compliance, private funds and their investment advisers.


Contact Doug Maclean at dmaclean@armorcompliance.com or 617-501-2055.


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Michelman & Robinson, LLP: Our attorneys have extensive experience representing hedge funds in bankruptcy and bankruptcy litigation (as creditors, purchasers of distressed assets or committee members), lender liability cases and federal and state court litigation. We specialize in all aspects of distressed assets, including restructurings, selling or purchasing such assets, enforcing perfected rights or pursuing guaranty agreements. For more information please see http://www.mrllp.com/ or contact Sheri Kanesaka at 714.557.7990, or skanesaka@mrllp.com.

Michelman & Robinson, LLP is a full service, national law firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County.

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Directory of Hedge Fund Software Firms

Please contact Richard@HedgeFundGroup.org to have your firm’s software products listed here.

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Hedge Fund Contacts

Hedge Fund Industry Contacts

The list below was put together from this blog’s directory of hedge fund services. If you are a hedge fund startup or established hedge fund manager looking for additional industry contacts these individuals might be able to help you build your business.

Hedge Fund Administrators

• Polina Tsikman – BGT Fund Administration PTsikman@BGTConsulting.com
• Nottingham Investment Administration http://NCFunds.com

Hedge Fund Auditors

• Maurice Berkower – ACSB, Maurice@acsbco.com

Prime Brokers

• Lance Baraker – Saratoga Prime Services, LBaraker@Saratogaprime.com
• Larry Goldsmith – Triad Securities, Press@TriadSecurities.com
• Darren Day – Alaris Trading Partners, info@alaristrading.com

Commercial Real Estate Brokers

• Robert Kluge – NAI Global, RKluge@nainyc.com

Investment Research

• David Gurwitz – Charles Nenner Research, DGurwitz@earthlink.net
• Rob MacArthur – Alternative Research Services, rmacarthur@altresearch.com

Hedge Fund Marketing & Public Relations

• Richard Dukas – Dukas PR, Richard@DukasPR.com
• Michael Sakraida – Advisor Based Sales Consulting, M.Sakraida@att.net
• Mitch Ackles – Hedge Fund PR, Mitch.Ackles@HedgeFundPR.net

Hedge Fund Recruiters

• Marc Goormastic – Goormastic Executive Search, marcus@goormastic.com
• Sameer Vishwanathan – Mark Lewis Inc., Sameer@marklewisinc.com
  
• Anthony Solazzo – Masonboro Partners, anthony@masonboropartners.com
• Howard Ross – BOC Staffing Solutions, HRoss@BOCStaffing.com
• Ken Murray – Mercury Partners, kenmurray@mercurypartner.com

If you would like to be added to this list please email me at Richard@HedgeFundGroup.org.

- Richard

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Family Office Links

Family Office Resource List

I just found this great article providing dozens of links out to other family office resources. The resources include articles, associations, family office services descriptions, PowerPoint presentations and research papers. To view this article please click here. If you have additional resources that you would like to see linked to within this blog on family offices please email me.

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Philanthropic Giving

Philanthropic Giving Trend Video

Here is a short video on philanthropic giving. While it strays a bit from the core topic of philanthropy there isn’t much online about ultra-high net worth management or charitable/philanthopic giving by these individuals.

The main point of this video is that the popularity of giving is on the rise and gifts directed through private banking departments and family offices will continue to rise over the next 5-7 years.

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Multi-Family Office Services

What Services do Multi-Family Offices Provide?

Multi-Family Offices are exclusive wealth management firms that usually only accept clients with at least $10-$25M of investible securities. They typically have less total clients but spend more time with each client often assisting with tax, estate planning, charitable giving, foundation, and even budget issues in addition to traditional wealth management services. The costs are typically a little higher than a traditional wealth management office but you get more personal comprehensive service and usually a more sophisticated view of portfolio construction with access to alternative investments.

Family office professionals will take the time to ensure your separately managed acocunt investments and Hedge Funds are balanced and in line with your 401k or IRA investments. Their employees are often experienced and sophisticated enough to understand unified managed accounts (umas), and will be able to explain them to clientele so they may be employed where appropriate. While many family offices use hedge fund of funds, family office professionals will often find an individual hedge fund manager that fits you best if they do not already have one that they work with, and ultimately they are known for working harder to make you happy because they only work with a smaller group of core clients. Many high net worth individuals belong to health groups where doctors will take the time to set down with you for a couple hours each quarter or year and talk about your health and habits. This type of highly personal attention is equivalent to what you get in a financial sense at the best family offices.

- Chris

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Pain Free Selling

Pain Free Hedge Fund Marketing

Here is a short video on pain free selling. If you have read a lot of marketing and sales books many will recommend that you find your customer’s pain. I agree with Jeffrey Gitomer though that in the hedge fund world you should build marketing efforts based on relationships, positive solutions and goals. Here’s a clip on this idea:

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Bayou Capital Group

Samuel Israel – Bayou Capital Group Videos

Here are a series of 3 videos documenting Samuel Israel’s faked suicide, arrest and attempt to plead guilty in court. Mr. Israel was a hedge fund manager who ran Bayou Capital, he was accused of fraud and taking over $450M from his investors.

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Stock Market Timing

Stock Market Timing Interview – Steinhardt

Here is a short 10 minute interview with Michael Steinhardt from Wisdom Tree Investments. Within this interview he talks about how the stock market from a technical point of view looks poised for a rally yet at the same time shows many signs of a bear market. He believes that stock market timing or predicting commodities prices is always next to impossible and that for the next year or two the write offs in the banking sector will continue. He would like to see the fed raise the rates and he believes that this time things are really going to be different this time. If he is right that could mean a prolonged period of low or even negative hedge fund industry returns. I’ll be publishing a hedge fund performance article next week with an update on how different sectors are performing.

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- Richard

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Hedge Fund Industry Awards

Hedge Fund Industry Awards Dinner Video

Here is a short video showing a series of pictures from the recent Hedge Fund Industry Awards Dinner.

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Quick Link: List of Hedge Fund Prime Brokers

I recently read a short article about the prime brokerage business in Asia through FinAlternative’s prime brokerage survey. While many local markets have been recently hurt performance-wise Asia has a vastly expanding hedge fund industry, and prime brokerages are bolstering their capacity in Asia by buying up talented executives from the top firms.

Major firms like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley have struggled to retain their top executives in Asia from rival prime brokerages. Goldman Sachs now claims five managing directors of its Asian prime brokerage division, and has plans to have another series of major hiring. Asia, being the fastest growing hedge funds market, has become more and more important for successful prime brokerages.

A growing number of Hedge Fund Group (HFG) members have been expressing an interest in learning more about hedge funds in Asia, hedge fund jobs in Asia and ways to seek exposure to new investor markets within that region of the world. If you have any white papers or PowerPoints on this topic and don’t mind sharing them please send them over. Thanks in advance.

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