Kim Hunter
- Features
Seeing through transparency
A survey conducted last year by Deutsche Bank found that over one-third of hedge-fund investors require managers to provide detailed information about the holdings and risk in their portfolios. Yet, according to an earlier report by Capital Markets Risk Advisors (CMRA) in association with the Alternative Investment Managers Association, while ...
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Turning on the taps
‘How to tackle Germany’ occupied much conversational space at recent conferences. The Investment Act and the Investment Tax Act, which came into force on 1 January this year, brought hedge funds onshore for the first time, enabling an investor base already familiar with hedge fund index certificates to have direct ...
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EVCA launches 'good practice' for investor relations
“The success of any private equity and venture capital initiative depends on the establishment of a good relationship between the investors in the initiative and those establishing and managing it.” So opens the summary to the EVCA draft consultation paper on private equity good practice launched this month. The paper ...