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Panel session: Regulation: The good, the bad and the downright stupid

May 24, 2012  


Coping with the tidal wave of new regulations


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Andrew Baker, Darcy Bradbury, Martin Cornish, Thomas Deinet, Leonard Ng, Nick Evans
With the financial services industry facing a flood of new regulations in Europe, the US and elsewhere, some of the hedge fund industry’s leading regulatory specialists discussed the growing pressures being placed on managers and investors.

Among the panellists was Andrew Baker, CEO of AIMA which has been outspoken about the need for any new regulation to be proportionate and well thought out. AIMA has been particularly vocal about the EU directive, which is guaranteed to have wide-ranging consequences for fund managers, investors and counterparties.

Baker was joined on the panel by Darcy Bradbury, a managing director at DE Shaw and...

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April 2013 European regional fund

Composite
Index Composite
EuroHedgeApr 13YTD%
Composite0.71%3.44%38%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage EUR2.51%5.46%33%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage USD0.87%3.51%50%
Credit EUR1.47%4.81%28%
Credit USD-0.22%2.84%23%
Currency-0.71%-0.27%48%
Emerging Market Debt USD1.41%2.01%29%
Emerging Market Equity USD-0.07%2.93%27%
Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies EUR0.59%3.21%22%
Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies USD0.73%3.22%40%
European Equity EUR0.32%3.71%36%
European Equity GBP0.66%6.25%16%
European Equity Nordic0.98%5.23%72%
European Equity USD0.31%4.55%27%
Event Driven EUR0.40%2.79%39%
Event Driven USD0.63%0.57%32%
Fixed Income EUR0.58%1.43%28%
Fixed Income USD0.40%1.11%27%
Global Equity EUR0.51%3.90%50%
Global Equity USD1.23%5.44%43%
Macro EUR1.05%2.42%35%
Macro USD1.26%3.30%34%
Managed Futures EUR2.51%5.69%60%
Managed Futures USD2.79%6.25%72%
Mixed Arbitrage & Multi-Strategy USD1.31%4.06%39%

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