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  Currencies: The growth of foreign exchange as an asset class

  Jul 2010

  By daily volume, the currency trading market is massive, turning over far more each day by value than recognised major asset classes like equities or bonds. It is a market that continues to evolve, with the increasing popularity of multi-manager strategies and the rapid growth in the depth and liquidity of emerging markets being just two of the new dimensions featured in this report.

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  Global $bn firms – the full list

  Apr 2010

  Assets in global hedge funds fell and then rebounded during 2009 to end the year at just over $1.82 trillion - roughly the same level as the previous year - according to the latest research compiled by HedgeFund Intelligence. See the full list of global billion dollar firms here.

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  Commodities: Trading and investing opportunities

  Mar 2010

  There are plenty of good reasons to explain why commodities are increasingly regarded as an asset class in their own right. Foremost among these is that the empirical research published on the market demonstrates that commodities are a valuable diversification tool generating returns that are generally uncorrelated with other mainstream assets. At times, those returns have been eye-popping.

Data

Indices July 2010 Fund of Funds

Composite

Composite

Composite

IH	Jul 10	YTD	%
Composite	0.57%	-0.39%	100%
Arbitrage USD	0.46%	1.18%	100%
Asian Pacific Fund of Funds	1.20%	-2.44%	100%
Asset Based Lending	0.49%	1.42%	100%
Commodities	1.15%	-4.67%	100%
Distressed	0.61%	2.32%	100%
Emerging Managers	0.20%	-0.76%	100%
Emerging Markets Hedge USD	1.50%	0.45%	100%
European Equity EUR	0.96%	-1.24%	100%
European Multi Strategy EUR	1.14%	-0.01%	100%
Fixed Income USD	0.96%	3.77%	100%
Global Equity USD	1.15%	-0.92%	100%
Global Macro Currency USD	-0.44%	-0.94%	100%
Global Multi Strategy EUR	0.30%	-0.86%	100%
Global Multi Strategy USD	0.50%	-0.30%	100%
Leveraged Global Multi-Strategy USD	0.40%	0.47%	100%
Self-Invested Fund of Funds	0.00%	0.00%	0%
US Equity	1.10%	-0.29%	100%

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