By Staff Writer, Hedge Fund Insight The latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey has just been released. Paula Smith, PwC’s UK asset management leader, said:“Investment managers are more optimistic due to strong improvement in revenues and profitability, with the latter increasing for the sixth consecutive quarter. Firms continue to benefit from the comparative stability of financial […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Marketing Using the Internet
By Mauro D’Andrea, and Simon Kerr Statistics are some of most powerful tools in the marketing world. Write a statement, and everyone who reads it will think it’s just your opinion (or your experience). Add stats to that statement and everyone will recognize what you said as an objective truth. Stats are very powerful […] Read more »
Three Things Every Hedge Fund Must Know About Marketing In The Post JOBS Act Era
From www.streetid.com Are financial institutions — namely hedge funds — prepared to market themselves to investors when the JOBS Act rules are issued in the next six to 12 months? Will Thompson, co-founder and CEO of HedgeComm (a marketing and PR agency that focuses on the alternative investment industry), has found that few hedge funds have […] Read more »
SEC to Advisers: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
by Deborah Prutzman, The Regulatory Fundamentals Group LLC A little over a year ago the SEC warned advisers that the game has changed and that the agency would begin to use a risk-oriented, holistic approach to scrutinize senior managers and the control environment within their firms. Today, the warning sirens are growing even louder […] Read more »
Quotation of the Day
Because its purpose is to create a customer, any business has only two functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs. Peter Drucker Read more »
Review of Hedge Funds in 2012
By Charles Gubert, Editor of COOConnect Here is our take on what happened in 2012, and the clues we picked up as to what hedge fund COOs can look forward to over the next 12 months. In the spirit of the season, and to make it a bit harder for ourselves, we decided to restrict […] Read more »
Which Are The Best Service Sector Companies & Managements?
Each year the Broadwalk Services Awards recognise outstanding achievements by quoted companies and their management teams in the broadly defined business services sectors. The sponsors are Broadwalk Asset Management that manages the Broadwalk Select Services Fund, Europe’s first absolute return fund to focus on the services sectors (the fund has risen almost 90% since its […] Read more »
HF Marketing – Impact of Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
By Selina Sagayam and Lauren Dunford of Gibson Dunn The FSA published the first part of its long-awaited consultation paper “CP 12/32 Implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD“) Part 1” on the 12th of November. Below is an extract about marketing and AIFs from Gibson Dunn’s alert. The alert also addressed valuation, […] Read more »
Cautious Welcome For JOBS Act Proposals
Henrietta Hirst, Managing Director of Parex PR New rules under the proposed JOBS Act are expected to bring dramatic changes to the marketing of hedge funds in the United States. When President Obama signed the JOBS Act in April this year he brought the hedge fund industry one step closer to a relaxation on […] Read more »
Oil Price To Continue Rising Says Oil Stock Specialist
By Angelos Damaskos, CEO Sector Investment Managers and Fund Advisor, Junior Oils Trust Geopolitical events in North Africa and the Middle East have supported the oil price in recent weeks. The announcement by the Federal Reserve (Fed) of QE3, with the unlimited purchase of agency mortgage-backed securities to the order of $40bn per month, and […] Read more »