April 24, 2010
Sophisticated?
Having been stuck in Europe last week, even the joke "UK to Iceland - no! We said send cash not ash!" wore a little thin as the days passed by. Now that the flights are moving once more, we wanted...
Posted at 07:00 PM in Hedge funds
March 25, 2010
European Resources
Two resources on European hedge fund initiatives may be of interest: The Hedge Fund Journal has created a new portal on UCITS funds, available at Ucits Hedge. Separately PricewaterhouseCoopers has prepared an ongoing series of papers on the EU Alternative...
Posted at 07:00 PM in Hedge funds
March 24, 2010
Front Running
As one further follow up to our recent post on misvaluation in an investment bank, we were also interested to read of an episode in Australia whereby a trader with Macquarie is alleged to have deliberately traded ahead of large...
Posted at 07:00 PM
March 20, 2010
Fraud in the workplace
One of the members of Castle Hall's team holds the designation of Certified Fraud Examiner, and we were interested to read a recent article from the association's publication, Fraud Magazine. The article "intimidation in the office" focuses on workplace bullying...
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