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The Alternative Investment Management Association
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Published articles
The institutionalisation of the hedge fund industry
Institutional Investor, July 2010
This is a thought leadership article by AIMA Chairman Todd Groome on the “institutionalisation” of the hedge fund industry. It was an abridged version of a longer article that was due to follow in the Q3 2010 issue of the AIMA Journal.
Comment: Andrew Baker
HFM Week, June 2010
Andrew Baker wrote a column about the AIFM Directive for HFM Week.
A global regulatory framework
HedgeFund Intelligence Global Review 2010, May 2010
Andrew Baker wrote a column for the HedgeFund Intelligence Global Review 2010 in which he outlined some of the global regulatory responses to the financial crisis.
Don't blame hedge funds for world's woes
FTfm, May 2010
Florence Lombard, the former chief executive of AIMA, wrote this valedictory piece for the Financial Times' FTfm supplement.
Comment: Andrew Baker
HFM Week, April 2010
Andrew Baker wrote a column about the AIFM Directive for HFM Week.
Money talks
The Parliament Magazine, April 2010
Andrew Baker wrote an article about the latest developments with the AIFM Directive for The Parliament (page 35), the twice-monthly publication read by European Union officials. Andrew’s piece appeared in a special report on the Directive that also included contributions by Directive Rapporteur Jean-Paul Gauzes, European Socialists leader Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, MEP Syed Kamall and Javier Echarri of EVCA.
Striving for financial stability
Complinet Informer, March 2010
Writing in Complinet’s Informer magazine (pp8-9), Andrew Baker said the hedge fund industry supported transparency and desired financial stability.
Comment: Andrew Baker
HFM Week, February 2010
Writing in HFM Week, AIMA's CEO Andrew Baker says the hedge fund industry supports greater transparency.
Draft's winds of change
Hedge magazine, February 2010
AIMA’s Andrew Baker noted that the process in drafting the AIFM Directive has been complex.
Hedge funds should contribute to stability
FTfm, January 2010
In a thought leadership piece in the Financial Times’ FTfm publication, AIMA’s Todd Groome highlighted key issues to consider when tackling systemic risk.
Man on a mission
Hedge Funds Review, October 2009
A major profile of AIMA Chairman Todd Groome.
Hedging your bets
Financial Services Technology, October 2009
AIMA's Andrew Baker says that the draft Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive could threaten jobs and pension returns, and concentrate risk rather than dissipating it.
Best laid plans
Hedge, October 2009
AIMA’s Andrew Baker discusses the progress being made with the Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) directive campaign in this article for Hedge magazine.
Europe's misguided directive
Pensions Insight, October 2009
AIMA's Andrew Baker looks at the AIFM directive campaign from the perspective of pension funds and other institutional investors in this article for Pensions Insight magazine.
Hedge funds and current issues
SFAF Financial Analysis Journal, March 2009
Ahead of the G20 Summit, AIMA was asked to write an article setting out its efforts ahead of the Summit and its views on the future outlook for the industry.
Shorting - an essential, endangered hedge
FTfm, June 2008
In line with AIMA’s brief to champion the industry and educate its observers, an article by Andrew Baker arguing in favour of short-selling was published in the influential Talking Head column of FTfm, the Financial Times’ weekly investment industry supplement.
Hedge funds - is regulation needed?
Kangaroo Group, June 2008
The Kangaroo Group, an association which includes members of the European Parliament, the European Commission and Council, recently invited AIMA to submit an article to their quarterly newsletter. Consisting of articles written by key industry figures, the newsletter provides information and opinions on legal and political developments in the European Union. Florence Lombard's article on the regulation of hedge funds and the myths surrounding the hedge fund industry can be read here.
