Features

Two year ago cleantech, or green, investing was the strategy du jour. Today, industry expert and best-selling author Peter Fusaro explains that the industry is in a lull, though he still believes that investors can diversify their risk by investing in green funds.

It’s estimated that women manage only 3% of the $1.5 trillion invested worldwide in hedge funds. That makes Pamela Lawrence, co-founder of distressed debt hedge fund Restoration Capital Management, a rarity.

Jonathan NeillJonathan Neill is chief strategist and lead portfolio manager for long directional funds at UK-based FPP Asset Management. Neill took some time last week to speak with FINalternatives senior reporter Mary Campbell about the attractions of undervalued stocks, the upside to risk aversion, and the truth about China ‘experts.’

Investors are demanding transparency, and the hedge fund industry—often labeled as secretive and opaque—is giving it to them. Andrew Rogers, president of Gemini Fund Services, recently spoke with FINalternatives about how hedge funds can not only be transparent, but how they can use this new openness to their advantage.

Peter HarrisonFINalternatives senior reporter Mary Campbell speaks with Peter Harrison, chief executive of $2.5 billion RWC Partners, about the pros and cons of UCITS III funds and what proposed EU regulations could mean for alternative investment fund managers.

Justin DewFile this one under "silver linings." The end of what has been termed a "25-year bender" for equities could see institutional investors looking for other options, and Justin Dew, senior managing director of strategic development at Welton Investment Corporation, has the answer, managed futures.

Bruce Lipnick, chief executive officer of Asset Alliance, a global alternative investment firm specializing in acquiring, seeding and growing hedge funds, talks to FINalternatives about the state of the hedge fund industry today and tells us how managers need to adapt in order to succeed tomorrow.

In January, most market indices took a beating, and hedge funds were no exception.

Contributor James Bibbings investigates whether a new proposed rule by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would mean the end of retail forex transactions as we know them.

By Chris Carey -- Federal authorities are investigating the activities of two executives at Vicis Capital LLC, a New York hedge fund operator that began last year with nearly $5 billion under management.

Vicis is the biggest investor in a pair of small public companies that have been implicated in an insurance fraud scheme. The FBI and a grand jury have been examining what role, if any, representatives of the hedge fund played in that scheme.