Download Issue | Q&A with Tom Gimbel
Tom Gimbel, Executive Managing Director, Optima Fund Management, talks to Randy Devere |
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Download Issue | Q&A with Andrew Shrimpton of Kinetic Partners
We talk to Andrew Shrimpton, formerly the Head of Alternatives Supervision at the FSA, who joined Kinetic Partners last month |
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Download Issue | We recently met Joan Kehoe, a veteran of the Dublin funds industry with strong views on what she feels is needed. She decided in late 2005 that there was a gap in the market for a scaleable hedge fund administration platform that would not compromise on service. “We felt there was a huge gap in the quality of service being offered to funds between $100m and $3bn in AUM,” she says. “These guys are not getting enough attention.”
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Download Issue | There was once a bank that invested in a highly speculative investment vehicle, used derivatives to leverage its position within that vehicle, and timed its exit perfectly, thanks to the presence of one of its partners on the board. That bank was C. Hoare & Co., the year was 1720, and the investment was the South Sea Company.
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Download Issue | Q&A: Sander van Eijkern, Robeco
The Hedge Fund Journal had the opportunity this month to talk to Robeco’s hedge funds chief Sander van Eijkern about Transtrend, a €10 billion structured products book, and the what the future holds for Robeco hedge funds.
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Download Issue | Sabre’s Chief Executive Officer on hedge fund asset gathering |
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Download Issue | The appointment of Kate O’Neill as head of Henderson’s hedge funds business has been something of a watershed for the $3.1bn hedge fund manager, as it marked the recognition of the firm’s hedge funds as a significant part of the business. |
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Download Issue | Steve Danby and myself are the co-managers of the fund. We’ve both been quant analysts for the best part of 20 years. Steve has spent nearly all of that time at Henderson, I’ve spent most of that time on the broking side, where I finished up running the European quant team at JPMorgan Chase. I left there three years ago, and came to Henderson with the idea that I was going to work with Steve to build hedge funds. He’d been given some time by his line managers to start thinking about the product. With that in mind, he came to me and put the proposal to me. |
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Download Issue | A cohesive response
In the wake of the Financial Services Authority’s discussion papers on hedge funds regulation, Stuart Fieldhouse talks to Florence Lombard and Mary Richardson at AIMA about the implications for their membership |
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Download Issue | Dubai: new land of opportunity
for hedge funds?
James Norris talks to Rod Palmer, managing partner of Walkers in Dubai, about the prospects for hedge funds in the Emirate |
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Download Issue | Land of the midnight sums
Laurence Davison talks to Martin Estlander and Kaj Rönnlund founders of Estlander and Rönnlund Group, the Finnish CTA which manages approximately US$400m. |
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Download Issue | Polar Capital was created in 2001 by the former Henderson technology investment specialists Brian Ashford-Russell and Tim Woolley with backing from Caledonia Investments Plc. In structure Polar Capital Partners Limited is a 81/19 majority partner in the venture with Caledonia. |
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Download Issue | IMS Consulting
James Norris talks to Scott Wilson on the importance of having an adequate regulatory and operational control infrastructure |
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Download Issue | Winton Capital Management
Simon Kerr talks at length to Winton Capital Management’s founder and leader |
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Download Issue | The hedge fund market Down Under
Andrew Hutchings on alternatives
in the Antipodes |
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