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London hedge fund banking on Twitter

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
UK investment boutique Derwent Capital Markets is putting its faith in social media, launching a hedge fund that bases investments on real time insight into the "fear and greed" aspect of financial markets. The $40 million fund, launched earlier this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... across the board, including the banking sector, after three weak days. Microsoft jumped 2.0 per cent to $24.67 after hedge fund investor David Einhorn called for the company's board to get rid of chief executive Steve Ballmer. That was taken as a push ...

Tora improves electronic platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Asian electronic trading platform provider Tora has launched a new compliance engine that enables clients to write targeted trading rules and helps with compliance. TORA Compass 7.0 allows users to create specific rules for particular orders, portfolios ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
A former billionaire US hedge fund player has been found guilty of a spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence. Raj Rajaratnam, who co-founded the New York-based hedge fund management firm, Galleon Group, has ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... headed for one-seven-o in three years time. "Global currency expert Savvas Savouri, of the British-based Toscafund hedge fund... predicts the dollar will reach $US1.30 by 2013 -- and $US1.70 by 2014, as the greenback relinquishes its "exorbitant privilege" ...

UBS expanding Asian fund business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... significant momentum," said the spokesman. The majority of UBS' Asia Pacific clients are Asian based investors, investing in hedge fund to fund or private equity fund to fund transactions. Lunn and his team will look to offer a 24-hour coverage to investors. ...

Foreign shocks sparks IT scrutiny

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... so that should a disaster or power outage happen, the fund would be up and running immediately. Some of Alphaserve's hedge fund clients operate in Australia, with Sydney branches, and it also supports one of the largest internet service providers in ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... a high-level investigation into both research firms and auditors who reported on super fund Trio and its associated hedge fund Astarra Strategic. Financial advisers are vulnerable as they look at audited reports and ratings-house research before advising ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... also come from the tenuous nature of the jobs recovery where headline unemployment currently sits at 8.8 per cent. US hedge fund trader John Thomas has said the US needs 27 million new jobs to soak up natural population and immigration growth, to set ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... European real estate according to the Preqin report. Bart Turtelboom, co-head of global emerging markets at London-based hedge fund GLG Partners, told trustees at last week's Conference of Major Superannuation Funds that the developing world was reverting ...