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RSS fundServing the Hedge Fund Industry: Seasoned Professionals for a Time of Change
White Paper And for the first time since 2000, fund liquidations are outpacing fund launches. Hedge funds are facing a time of unprecedented challenge and opportunity. With market uncertainty and tight credit... [13 Nov 2009]
The Hedge Fund Disclosure Paradox
White Paper It has long been accepted that risk management is a core competency for generating absolute returns within a hedge fund strategy. Prior to the downturn, superior performance enabled hedge fund managers... [13 Nov 2009]
Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Risk Management Issues Associated With Hedge Fund Restructuring
White Paper This situation was exacerbated, in many cases, by funds that impose gates, or limitations of the amount of capital that can be withdrawn from a fund at a given redemption date (often quarterly, but in some cases monthly). [13 Nov 2009]
Hedge Funds to Reconsider Administrators for Valuations and Risk Analytics
White Paper Hedge fund managers are being pushed as never before to provide greater transparency into the valuation of their portfolios. The lingering credit crisis has surfaced issues for hedge funds that will have reverberations... [13 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that provides the mobile radio network used by every UK police force and currently being rolled out to every ambulance trust and Fire and... [03 Nov 2009]
Crossing the Valley of Death
White Paper The mission of research funders, such as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is to fund innovative work that proves new principles in engineering and science. Death Valley in California is the desert... [26 Oct 2009]
Troops in Afghanistan to get gadget gifts
News These gifts will be funded by charitable donations to the Operational Welfare Fund. The fund will - for the first time - give troops the opportunity to decide what the money raised through public... [15 Oct 2009]
Bridging the Funds Divide
White Paper The investment-fund industry is still without a true vision. The time has come for a far-reaching, industry-wide initiative that could encompass a serious dialogue, the development of common principles and a plan to make... [15 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News His announcement follows the recent award of £460,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to Bletchley Park and the apology by Prime Minster Gordon Brown to Alan Turing, the gifted Bletchley Park mathematician. [13 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile He's also co-founded London-based VC fund Atomico Ventures, which put money into a wealth of other tech ventures including wi-fi sharing community FON and music discovery service Last.fm. Niklas Zennström is best known... [08 Oct 2009]
PKWARE Case Study: Financial Services Provider #5
White Paper The company is a leading provider of investment management, asset and fund administration, as well as fiduciary and banking solutions for corporations, institutions, and individuals worldwide. The challenge was to... [01 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News Try and find out how much money a vendor could raise in order to fund investment in a new BPO deal. Want to avoid getting burned when signing a BPO deal? There's a set of warning signs that buyers should look for in... [30 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery
News Bletchley, which houses the National Museum of Computing, has won £460,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help fund its restoration and could receive a further £4.1m to transform it into a heritage... [29 Sep 2009]
Google's $10m change-the-world prize: 16 themes chosen
News Create more efficient landmine removal programs: "Fund global organisations that are developing efficient strategies for landmine detection and removal.Numerous suggestions for this topic include robotic, human, and... [28 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News Also as part of the settlement, which is still pending approval from a judge, a $9.5m "settlement fund" has been established to set up an independent foundation to "fund projects and initiatives that... [21 Sep 2009]
