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Issue: 0815| Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Infrastructural limitations for clearing systems

HFs seek opportunities in low leverage

Cleanup CDS Market: advises Soros

HFs holding on to cash

Metals as ‘safe haven’ investment

Guidelines on European Bank Failures

Debate over Microfinance for profit

Darling to relieve banks of risky loans

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Hedge funds ‘help weather market turmoil’

Hedge Funds will play a key role for investors to weather the current market turmoil, according to financial experts.

A two-day Alternative Investment Conference in Dubai was addressed by six of the world’s most prominent hedge fund managers and attended by over 300 institutional and high net worth (HNW) investors from the region.

“No matter how severe the looming financial crisis is, it is certain to lead to new opportunities in the future as talented hedge fund managers will be in a good position to monetise those opportunities,” said George Azar, managing director of Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) Dubai, which organised the event.

Azar said the general consensus amongst economic experts was that we have now entered an era of dislocation where the liquidity crisis has morphed into a solvency crisis …(Read more..)

Source :Trade Arabia

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