Blair Hull In Worth Magazine
Wall Street’s 25 Smartest Players By Ted C. Fishman
That was 1989. Today, Hull’s company is one of the world’s premier market-making firms, setting the bid-ask price on stocks listed on 28 exchanges in nine countries. In some venues, the Hull Group trades nearly a quarter of the entire daily market volume. [...]
In this comeback year for investors, David Tepper may have scored one of the biggest paydays of all.
Mr. Tepper’s hedge-fund firm has racked up about $7 billion of profit so far this year—with Mr. Tepper on track to earn more than $2.5 billion for himself, according to people familiar with the matter. That is among [...]
This article will be about hedge fund accounting software providers. I will add to the article as the time goes and I get more information on this niche of hedge fund software industry.
From the top of my head can name a few companies that develop accounting software for hedge funds and FoHFs:
Cogency Softwre
FundCount
Advent
PennyItWorks
To be continued…
CARY, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Risk management remains a hot topic for all financial services firms. Introduction of more stringent requirements, especially in the investment management industry, calls for hedge funds to access more powerful analytics to effectively measure portfolio risk, typically a difficult task with significant fixed costs. To meet this market need, Concept Capital, an [...]
Investors are Demanding Funds Switch from In-house to Independent Administrators
Over 50% of Hedge Funds to Require Daily NAV Calculations within 12 Months
NEW YORK & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– With a post-Madoff world fixed firmly in the rear-view mirror and new regulations on the horizon, a new report from TABB Group describes how the role of fund [...]
1st December 2009, London, Syncova Solutions, the specialist provider of margining and financing solutions to the Prime Broker and Hedge Fund markets, has signed a new client in Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe, the European arm of leading Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities SMBC Co Ltd. The firm has deployed Syncova’s OPTIMA/Broker platform, with a global [...]
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As hedge fund managers look forward to coping with expected tighter regulation and reporting requirements of the Obama Administration, they should be prepared to collect and extract much of the same client and investment data that traditional asset management firms now furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Boston-based consultant Jane [...]
Advises Hedge Funds to Draw on Techniques Developed by Large Asset Managers for SEC Compliance
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As hedge fund managers look forward to coping with expected tighter regulation and reporting requirements of the Obama Administration, they should be prepared to collect and extract much of the same client and investment data that traditional asset management [...]