Tag: investment

What Are Options? Options are another financial instrument used by investors, day in and day out, to trade on stock and bond markets. Unlike many...

A Florida securities firm owner operated two websites through which he offered by subscription a “stock analyzer” touted as utilizing mathematical algorithms to identify...

What Is The Principle of Market Neutrality? Market Neutrality is another Hedge Fund Strategy that has been developed with one goal in mind, i.e. to...

Six federal agencies have approved the final rule requiring sponsors of securitization transactions to retain risk in those transactions. The rule is an implementation...

So far, we have discussed the various strategies that Hedge Funds use to earn profits and operate in a financial market. The main purpose...

What is Equity Long-Only Investments? There is a strong connection between Equity Long-Only Investments and Hedge Funds. Where the latter has always been in search...

  Billions of hedge fund dollars have recently been invested in companies which have announced plans to merge with overseas organizations with the intended outcome...

  Apart from the many investment strategies define previously, Fixed Income Arbitrage is another move used by institutional traders. It is particularly popular with Hedge...

Sometimes people use the terms hedge funds and mutual funds interchangeably, which is incorrect as they have some marked differences between them.  First, let’s...

In 2012, the U.S. Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) that enhanced the ability of startup entrepreneurs and those growing...

  A former hedge fund manager has been ordered to pay more than $358 million in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit that charged...

The South Pacific island nation of Nauru — population 10,000 — was once considered one of the phosphate mining capitals of the world, a...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has issued a regulatory notice requesting comment on a proposed rule to implement the Comprehensive Automated Risk Data...

Last month, America’s largest public pension fund, California’s Public Employees' Retirement System (“CALPERS”) announced that it was ending its investments in hedge funds after...

What is a Global Macro Strategy? Global macro is defined as a hedge fund strategy in which the fund invests and takes long and short...

According to a recent survey, assets managed by South African hedge funds rose more than 27 percent in the year ending June 2014 (source:...

Funds of hedge funds: An Alternative Investment Strategy Funds of hedge funds are an alternative investment strategy whereas the investment portfolio consists of a number...

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) is a congressionally chartered regulatory organization governed by a 21-member board of directors and is subject to oversight...

Equity Long-Short Defined Understanding the financial and investment market requires some knowledge of basic principles of buying and selling securities. There are a number of...

Eurekahedge is an initiative that was started back in the year 2001. It started out as a small effort by a number of finance...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering new rules for oversight and stress testing of the asset management industry. In response to concerns...

Hedge funds can be categorized, not only according to the investment strategies used by them, but by the different types of the funds as...

Seen through the eyes of an investor, the entire world is a market place that presents various opportunities and threats to his investment portfolio....

Ignoring risk — the diametric opposite of what the past six years were supposed to have taught investors by way of strict regulation, high-priced...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) empowered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to extend monetary awards to whistleblowers who provide...