Hedgeweek Special Report on Innovation 2008

A year is a long time in financial markets. »

It is fashionable to blame hedge funds for the world's ills, and politicians have not waited long before pointing the finger at them over the credit crunch and the subsequent recession. »

When former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledges that he was "partially" wrong in his belief that some trading instruments, specifically credit default swaps (CDS), did no »

The investment industry today is more information intensive and data dependent than ever. »

Hedge funds have always had an interesting and diverse relationship with IT: from mission-critical, proprietary systems and prime broker-sourced systems to creating ad hoc spreadsheets - or ignorin »

The flow of information between hedge fund managers and investors has historically been challenging for both parties. »