h1 style="text-align: center;"bTop 3 Trendsbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bTop 3 Prime Brokerage Trends/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mauronewmedia.com/images/ued/main-business-objectives.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 162px;" src="http://www.mauronewmedia.com/images/ued/main-business-objectives.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aOver the last two years the mainstream media’s and general public’s interest in prime brokerage has rapidly grown. This is due to a number of factors including the struggle and failure many investment banks offering prime brokerage services including a alt="Lehman Prime Broker" href="http://primebrokerageguide.com/2008/05/lehman-prime-broker.html" title="Lehman Prime Broker"Lehman Brothers/a, mergers within the industry and widespread failures and redemption notices of hedge funds themselves.br /br /The top three trends affecting the prime brokerage industry right now are multi-prime brokerage relationships, limiting capital introduction services, and prime brokers acting as business partners to hedge fund managers.br /br /Multi-prime brokerage relationships used to be used by $5B+ a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-funds.html"hedge funds/a whose large institutional clients demanded the practice as a risk ...

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Rehypothication RisksRehypothication Risks, Rights & CostsHere is a short article about the Rehypothication by prime brokerage firms, the definition of it, the risks of prime brokers using the strategy, the rights of hedge funds who loose access to their assets and what happens to the cost of prime brokerage services when hedge funds request for their assets not to be rehypothicated.Here is a short excerpt from the article:The dangers for hedge funds of having their assets rehypothecated became painfully clear last week: $22bn of the $40bn held by Lehman’s European prime brokerage had been rehypothecated. Hedge funds trying to reclaim the rehypothecated assets have found themselves in the queue of general creditors, likely to get back only a proportion of their money.Even those hedge funds which had ...

Asian Prime BrokerAsian Prime Broker Growth TrendHere is an interesting article about the growth of prime brokerage services in Asia. I didn't know that growth was so strong for these groups right now...Citigroup expects the amount of assets serviced by its Asia Pacific prime brokerage arm to grow by more than 30 percent annually over the next three to five years, as more global hedge funds set up shop in the region.Even with tumbling stock markets hammering Asia's hedge fund industry, many large international managers are doing more business in the region, drawn by its long-term potential, said Hannah Goodwin, head of Prime Finance, Asia Pacific for the U.S. banking giant."We're looking at a 30 to 50 percent growth every year," ...