Tag: regulation

All around the globe financial regulators are waking up and recognise the disruption FinTech brings to the industry. Now they consider whether new rules...

What keeps Alternative Investment professionals up at night? The profile of alternative investments has increased dramatically over just the past 5 years, with growing legions...

FinTech, Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Regulation – An interview with legal experts Sean Murphy and Imogen Garner  What does Brexit mean for London Fintechs? What...

FinTech Alternative Investments Digital Fund Management solutions. The ability to manage and extract value using solid and secure software such as fund management solutions from the right financial...

It might not be sexy, but not adhering to the rules is not an option, regardless the size of an organisation. Jochen Heussner from...

What do a wealth manager, an award-winning detox guru, a foreign exchange pro, a leading lawyer and a fintech king all have in common?...

·      Ownership Tab gathers together corporate governance data, including shareholders and related companies ·      Feature automates time-consuming manual processes, uncovering connections linking businesses and directors DueDil,...

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, virtual money, Litecoin, Blockchain and so on… You may have heard these terms, but do you know what they mean? To be fair,...

Climate Change implications for various Assets and Industries In light of ongoing changes towards the policies and regulations on climate change, every investor should be...

This is the last part of the series on Financial regulation and the Hedge Fund Industry which gives an overview of the main regulatory bodies...

The Hedge Fund industry is often perceived as unregulated. It is actually not the case. In fact, since the onset of the financial crisis,...

This article has been written with the help of several sources including Wikipedia, the Financial Times, the Handbook of Hedge Funds by Francois-Serge Lhabitant,...

  "The world economy is locked on a course towards an emerging markets crisis and a renewed slowdown in the US, regardless of the Federal...

HedgeThink is proud to present the interview with Ana Botin, Santander Group Chair and Bloomberg Television anchor and editor-at-large Francine Lacqua. The interview covered such...

Hedge Fund managers are often called Investment Advisors as well. Because of the advisory role they play in guiding and counseling institutional investors, by...

We continue series based on the book “The Pragmatic Hedge Fund Manager” started with Part 1 on The History of Hedge Fund Industry. Below...

Starting a hedge fund requires substantial capital, covering regulatory compliance, legal fees, staffing, and more. With potential first-year costs nearing £1.7 million for even...

How to Set Up a Hedge Fund Hedge funds have been a huge success for the most part ever since their conception. A large number...

Scandinavian Capital Markets - SCMForex.com's Chief Investment Officer David Bouchahda talks with Hedgethink.com about the new Swedish fund strategy, technology and the rapid growth...

Creating a Sustainable Infrastructure Many emerging fund managers enter the hedge fund business thinking that the most challenging thing they will have to do is...

“The European alternative UCITS industry has been growing since the third iteration of the UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) directive came...

by Timothy Mohr, Principal & National Financial Services Advisory leader, BDO Consulting The hedge fund industry is undergoing a period of immense and rapid change....

When its most recent earnings report was released, Citigroup made a call that should have resounded across the hedge fund industry. The company, one...

Last month the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) decided to cut back on the number of Private Equity Managers. This curtailment came just...

The announcement by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) last year to exit 30 hedge funds entire investment valued at $4 billion was...