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An old story in modern times. Duncan Mavin's pretty darn good book on Greensill

Bronte Capital

Pyramid of Lies - Duncan Mavin's great book on the Greensill Capital debacle - tells us - as if we need to be told - that the illusion of omniscient bankers is just an illusion - and that dross masquerading as financial innovation continues well after the financial crisis. I recommend Duncan's book. Really - buy it.

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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Mergers and Inquisitions

If you want to work in the most cyclical role in the finance industry, it’s hard to beat commodity hedge funds. Many of the largest hedge funds put commodity trading within their global macro strategies , but plenty of smaller funds, banks, and desks make it a separate category or focus on commodities within their macro strategies.

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Distressed Debt Hedge Funds: How to Become a Vulture Capitalist

Mergers and Inquisitions

Ask anyone interested in distressed debt hedge funds for “the pitch,” and they’ll probably mention one of the following: “It’s like long/short equity or credit , but more interesting!” Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.” Distressed investing offers equity-like returns with lower risk.”

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Mergers and Inquisitions

“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. But the other problem is that all hedge funds are “event-driven” because they invest based on catalysts , or specific events that could change a security’s price. If this fund is right, the company’s price may increase by 50%.

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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

The TRADE

Instead, a combination of rising interest rates, inflation, soaring energy prices and geopolitical tensions have hit hedge funds, and subsequently the risk management practices of prime brokers. This is a timing problem which causes issues on T+1 if there are any trade discrepancies between the asset manager and the executing broker.

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Untangling credit and liquidity in FX

The TRADE

However, in order to do so the untangling of liquidity and credit must take place, panellists said, speaking in discussions exploring various solutions including peer-to-peer liquidity and the prime brokerage model used by by hedge funds. Asset managers should be able to access the best liquidity in the world.

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Fireside Friday with… Liquidnet’s Jeff O’Connor

The TRADE

What is driving the purported ‘comeback’ of traditional asset managers? This alone was enough to make institutional asset managers wary of making moves. However, macroeconomic uncertainty, particularly due to historic inflationary pressures and rising yields, kept traditional asset managers cautious.