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Social media is fast becoming a dominating force online, helping both individuals and businesses gain the attention they need and/or want. For businesses who...

Financial activities are conducted under strict guidelines, both online and offline. Considering the free nature of the internet, particularly on social media, communication can...

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

Futures is defined as a specific financial contractual obligation that enjoins upon the buyer to purchase an asset or alternatively, for a seller to...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the European Commission (EC) enacted new regulations affecting the way National Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) conduct their business. As...

As of the second quarter of 2014, there were 10, 844 hedge funds operating worldwide with over 8,000 of them located in the United...

In December, 2013 the highly publicized LIBOR rate scandal resulted in the EU fining a group of global financial institutions more than $2 billion...

Part 3: Don’ts – Things to avoid while using Twitter for trading  Just as there are a number of things that you should practice when...

Do’s – Tips on what you should do when using Twitter for trading Given how important Twitter is and how useful it can be, it...

Section 1: the scope and importance of using social media tools like Twitter With the advent of technology, life as we have always known it...

The new budget for the year 2015 signals an increase in the tax on businesses. The most important proposal is for investment partnerships that...

Hedge funds have thrived as an industry in the recent years due to their attractive promise of high returns, favourable policies, sophisticated strategies and...

On December 10, 2013, five U.S. agencies jointly issued the Volcker Rule, a rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (“Dodd-Frank”) to...

For all amateur traders, knowing the right people in the industry to look up to is extremely important. If you invest in hedge funds,...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicated that the ongoing insider trading investigation involving the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and...

Big data has been on the business radar for a few years now, but in 2014 there has been a marked upswing in the...

In the final part of our series on the top 50 biggest hedge funds in the world, we take a look at the true...

30: Convexity Capital Management, Boston MA, USA Founded in 2005 by former Harvard Management CEO Jack Meyer along with Maurice Samuels and David Mittelman, Convexity...

Our countdown of the 50 biggest hedge funds in the world continues, with some of the biggest names in the hedge fund universe including...

In the first part of this series on the world's top 50 biggest hedge funds, we outlined some of the trends that have been...

One of the biggest stories in recent Wall Street history was the insider trading scandal centred around Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors. In July...

In part two we explored the common fund structures for those aiming to attract European investors, and the issues surrounding structuring a fund management...