Once a cure for insomnia, hedge fund operations now keeping everyone awake at night
| Apr 26th, 2009 | Filed under: Commodities, Today's Post | By: Alpha Male |
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Hedge fund operations have been thrust onto the front pages over the past 6 months as a result of some high profile cases of fraud, proposed new regulations and redemption gates. So we’ve come to Grand Cayman this week to find out how the hedge fund community is responding to these pressures. Much of this year’s “GAIM Ops” program focuses on due diligence, liquidity, third party administration and compliance – all of which have suddenly become key sources of competitive advantage in the post-Madoff world.
We’ll try to live-blog part of this one for you (as we did for Battle of the Quants in NY in February) so stay tuned (see below left). In the meantime, here is a round-up of stories that have caught our eye recently…
Power to the Hedge Funds! Long demonized, they may be the model firms of the future (Newsweek): It has become very rare for a mainstream media outlet to endorse the hedge fund industry. Is Newsweek’s piece last week a sign that mainstream anti-hedge fund rhetoric is waning? You be the judge. More…
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[...] all about alpha Hedge fund operations have been thrust onto the front pages over the past 6 months as a result of some high profile cases of fraud, proposed new regulations and redemption gates. So we’ve come to Grand Cayman this week to find out how the hedge fund community is responding to these pressures. Much of this year’s “GAIM Ops” program focuses on due diligence, liquidity, third party administration and compliance – all of which have suddenly become key sources of competitive advantage in the post-Madoff world. [...]