October

Geneva Roundtable Reveals How Family Offices, Fund of Funds Cope With the Markets and a Changing Hedge Fund World

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eneva, October 6th, 2008 — Opalesque(Hedge Fund News), the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has just launched the eighth issue of its groundbreaking Roundtable Series, the Opalesque Geneva Roundtable (download here: http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableGE). The Opalesque Roundtable Series provide a catalog of intelligence on the world’s most important hedge fund centers and portrait … Read more

LatAm Hedge Fund Outlook 2010

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Alternative Latin Investor recently spoke with two high profile hedge fund players in Latin America, Otávio Vieira, Portfolio Manager at Safdié and Carlos Rojas Perla, Chief Investment Officer at Compass Group. We were privileged to hear how both managers felt markets had played out in 2009 and to learn of the themes they expect to … Read more

Roundtable: Nordic Hedge Fund Leaders Say Hedge Funds a Stabilizing Force, Confident on Further Growth But Warn Over “race to Ever Shorter Liquid

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Stockholm, October 21st 2008 — Opalesque, the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has just launched the ninth issue of its groundbreaking Roundtable Series, the Opalesque Nordic Roundtable (download here: http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableNORDIC). Some of the Nordic hedge funds and CTAs have track records that go back to 1991. There are more than 200 … Read more

Increasing Consumer Confidence

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The Conference Board’s index of Consumer Confidence improved to 49.5% from a extensively upwardly revised level of 48.7 in October. Originally, the October level was at 47.5%. Consensus expectations were for the consumer confidence level to actually fall to 47.5%. The index saw a big enhancement from dismal levels during the spring, but since May … Read more

The Hidden Fangers of Filing Your Tax return Late

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It’s tempting to think that a £100 fine is a small price to pay for filing your tax return late. After all, it’s only a small amount and you may not even have to pay that is it turns out your tax liability is low as HMRC cannot fine you more than the tax that … Read more