Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
Hedge funds are facing a time of unprecedented challenge and opportunity. With market uncertainty and tight credit markets, funds are closing in record numbers. Gates and lockups are more frequent. Fee structures are changing. Regulators and investors are increasing demands for transparency. And for the first time since 2000, fund...
It has long been accepted that risk management is a core competency for generating absolute returns within a hedge fund strategy. Historic performance levels supported the view that expertise in identifying, measuring and managing risk was proprietary. Prior to the downturn, superior performance enabled hedge fund managers to diffuse investor...
After the market events in the third quarter of 2008, many hedge funds received redemption requests which, had they been honored, would have significantly impaired the capital base of many open ended hedge funds. This situation was exacerbated, in many cases, by funds that impose gates, or limitations of the...
Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisorsCountry going down in flamesOboma is out living like a dictator shuttingdown Detroit, using tax dollars for abortionsand thinking he is some messiah.Does that mean MS and Google now working for US gov?ntRE: Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder...
President Obama named Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to his panel of science and technology advisors along with a few other notable characters. The full name of this panel is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST and the goal is...
The lingering credit crisis has surfaced issues for hedge funds that will have reverberations far into the future. The immediate impacts are already telling, for example in valuation. Hedge fund managers are being pushed as never before to provide greater transparency into the valuation of their portfolios. In addition, the...
In the high-pressure and high-stakes world of hedge funds, a business interruption can quickly become a business killer. With their complete reliance on a sophisticated foundation of powerful computers and applications, data networks, and voice communications, hedge funds cannot afford even the slightest disruption in their IT service. When one...
Hedgetec Integration Incorporated is an integration company that runs technology in an Application Service Provider ASP model specifically for the hedge fund market. As a fast-growing ASP with 35 hedge fund customers managing billions of dollars, Hedgetec faces the critical need to provide online connectivity to its customers 24/7 at...
Medical devices are complex. Their regulatory environment is complex. You want to explain that complexity to mom-and-pop investors? Unless your goal in life is to schmooze Maria Bartiromo or Neal Cavuto, the answer is probably no. Fortunately there's an alternative. Venture capitalists are now...
Since we are awaiting a Vonage-Verizon patent infringement decision by end of today, this article Ive just read has special relevance. None of the parties in this article are directly tied to Vonage, but I think you might appreciate a broader take on what is going on with all...
I popped into the Web 2.0 Expo and conference Monday afternoon at the cavernous Moscone West in downtown San Francisco. I needed to get to the third floor to get my press credentials. Joining me in the elevator was Matthew, from an East Coast music startup. We started chatting and...
SOX is the nickname given the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, under which public companies must archive and make available for search their e-mails among other things.Lighthouse Global of Stamford, Connecticut is taking advantage of the trend with an open source E-Trail Digital Archive tool. By giving customers access to the source code,...
The Asian hedge fund market grew almost 40% to $90 billion in 2005. There is still ample room for compounded growth, as regional hedge funds constitute 7.5% of global numbers against a 15% contribution to world stock market capitalization, IDC Financial Insights says.
A major financial services company is a global leader in hedge fund management services, performing a complete range of accounting, administration, shareholder and corporate services to hedge funds and collective investment schemes. Seeking a solution for integrated communications with its clients and partners, the financial services company chose an Enterprise...
The one risk that bit Goldman Sachs: The internal data theftImportant point missedThe story states "Aleynikov?s alleged theft poses a risk to U.S. markets." This is very true. A program such as this controls microsecond level program trades. However this also begs the conclusion that Goldman Sachs have themselves used...
The costs of freeSomr miscreant? How about some do-gooder?"some miscreant may come along and skew the market in ways your model doesn?t reflect."Like the way some "miscreants" destroyed the livelihoods of apothecaries by revealing to the public how to make simple home remedies themselves?Face it, if somebody can destroy your...
Your goal is to turn $100,000.00 in virtual cash into a high performance portfolio. And if you can, there is no reason why you can't transfer the same performance to the actual stock markets making millions in real money. Investment bankers and hedge fund managers on Wall Street have been...
With 800 clients, Warren Wicklund is an innovative asset management business based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded in 2002 and now specialises in hedge fund management. Like many financial institutions during the global economic crisis, Warren Wicklund - a leading asset management firm in Norway - is under pressure...
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