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Money managers under the microscope
Hedge 2009
Today sees the start of the Hedge 2009 conference at the Hilton by Tower Bridge.
Speakers such as USS and Permal will assess what investors are looking for in hedge funds while Polygon and SVM will debate how funds put forward the right liquidity terms to investors.
Sushil Wadhwani will talk about how he uses Keynes’s theories about how financial markets work, Roger Bootle will discuss quantitative easing and Tudor Capital will talk about the benefits of quantitative funds.
After last year’s awful performance, money is slowing returning to the industry, but, after a series of frauds and funds locking up client money, investors are now cautious about who they give their money to.
from Global Investing:
Away from the flock
Companies need to actively encourage dissent and aspire to heretical rather than consensus views if they want to avoid being as unprepared as they were for the financial meltdown.
Noreena Hertz, professor of finance, sustainability and globalisation at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, kicked off the CFA Institute's second annual European Investment Conference in Frankfurt with a wake up call for the assembled asset managers and bankers.
