President of MFA Issues Response to Obama’s Proposals
On June 17th, 2009, Managed Funds Association (MFA) President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard H. Baker, issued the following statement in response to the proposed financial regulatory reform proposals recently announced by the Obama Administration:
“MFA believes the proposals outlined today by President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner, and [...]
Background Information
Manger: Coast Asset Management, LLC
Public/Private: Private
Website: http://www.coastasset.com/
Linked In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/coast-asset-management
Location: Los Angeles
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Founded: 1991
AUM: $4.487 billion
Registration: SEC Registered; California notice filed
Strategies: fixed-income investments, employing fixed-income arbitrage, multi-manager portfolio management, and credit-spread
Important Personnel: David E. Smith (CEO); Lori D. Edwards (SVP); Christopher Lewis (CCO); Simon Anderson (CFO)
Funds: COAST DIVERSIFIED FUND II-ALTERNATIVE, LTD., COAST [...]
Coast Taps Hedge Fund Veteran Roy Callahan for Fund of Funds Investment Committee
Coast Asset Management, LLC, a leading independent multi-strategy alternative investment firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of hedge fund industry veteran Roy H. Callahan as a portfolio manager and member of the firm’s investment committee, effective June 15.
Mr. Callahan, 54, joins Coast [...]
SEC Charges Broker With Operating as Unregistered BD
One of the more important issues for people in the securities industry is that they should be very aware not to act as an unlicensed broker. This generally means that a person should not accept compensation for brokering a deal (bringing together buyers and sellers of a security) [...]
Background Information:
Manger: The Tudor Group
Website: www.tudorfunds.com
Location: Greenwich, CT (HQ), Boston, London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, Washington D.C.
SEC Registered: YES
Strategies: global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities, event driven strategies and technical trading systems
Founder: Paul Tudor Jones
Other: In 1980, Jones founded Tudor Investment Corporation , which is [...]
Confluence Webinar Prepares Hedge Fund Administrators to Succeed in New Era of Reporting and Control Challenges
Confluence, the global investment management industry’s leading provider of automated data management solutions, today announced a new webinar for hedge fund administrators to help them meet the growing demands for increased reporting transparency and control. The webinar entitled “The Change [...]
EverKey Global Partners Deploys Linedata’s Award-Winning Hedge Fund Suite using Linedata Hosting
Linedata Services announced today that EverKey Global Partners (“Everkey”) selected Linedata Services’ Beauchamp FundManager and PositionManager delivered by way of Linedata Hosting. Everkey will use Linedata’s FundManager, a portfolio management system, and PositionManager a real-time position-keeping tool, to help manage the EverKey Global Fund, [...]
100 Women in Hedge Funds Seminar; Answers Tech Questions Many Hedges Were Afraid To Ask
100 Women in Hedge Funds and Linedata Services (NYSE Euronext: LIN) the leading provider of software, solutions and support for the buy-side, completed a successful educational seminar: “Leveraging Technology for Changing Regulatory and Reporting Environment.” The event was attended by over [...]
HBM launches comprehensive hedge fund administration, bucking challenging market
Linedata Services (LIN:FP), announced today that it has struck a deal to license MFact, MShare and Linedata Reporting to HBM Fund Services (“HBM”), the newly launched fund administration arm spun out of HBM Group. HBM Group is a leading independent financial services provider with 18-years of experience, [...]
Regulatory and Investor Forces Creating A “Perfect Storm”
Confluence, the global investment management industry’s leading provider of automated data management solutions, today announced a new whitepaper for hedge fund administration executives. Entitled “Hedge Fund Reporting: The Change Imperative,” the new whitepaper discusses why hedge fund administration stands on the forefront of radical change and outlines the [...]