Hedge Funds in RussiaHedge Fund Managers in Russia StruggleBelow is an article on the Russian hedge fund industry and how it is fairing - which is not well at this point. This article is being added to our site's Russian Hedge Fund Guide.Up to half of Russian hedge funds could go out of business as the financial crisis sends investors fleeing and the stock market continues to fall, according to industry experts.Speaking at the Russia Alternative Investment Summit on Wednesday, Simon Fentham-Fletcher, head of fund of hedge funds at Raiffeisen Bank, said in a worst-case scenario, 50 percent of Russian hedge funds could close. The primary source of failure will be a lack of funding as performance deteriorates and investors redeem their money, he said."If ...

Hedge Funds in RussiaHedge Fund Managers in Russia StruggleBelow is an article on the Russian hedge fund industry and how it is fairing - which is not well at this point. This article is being added to our site's Russian Hedge Fund Guide.Up to half of Russian hedge funds could go out of business as the financial crisis sends investors fleeing and the stock market continues to fall, according to industry experts.Speaking at the Russia Alternative Investment Summit on Wednesday, Simon Fentham-Fletcher, head of fund of hedge funds at Raiffeisen Bank, said in a worst-case scenario, 50 percent of Russian hedge funds could close. The primary source of failure will be a lack of funding as performance deteriorates and investors redeem their money, he said."If ...

Hedge Funds in RussiaHedge Fund Managers in Russia StruggleBelow is an article on the Russian hedge fund industry and how it is fairing - which is not well at this point. This article is being added to our site's Russian Hedge Fund Guide.Up to half of Russian hedge funds could go out of business as the financial crisis sends investors fleeing and the stock market continues to fall, according to industry experts.Speaking at the Russia Alternative Investment Summit on Wednesday, Simon Fentham-Fletcher, head of fund of hedge funds at Raiffeisen Bank, said in a worst-case scenario, 50 percent of Russian hedge funds could close. The primary source of failure will be a lack of funding as performance deteriorates and investors redeem their money, he said."If ...

MSCI tries to tackle Russian liquidity issues with new indexes that include stocks listed outside of the country. 

 

 

MSCI Barra has created two new Russia indexes to mitigate the problems recently exposed with the frequent suspension of trading on the Russian stock markets during the global market unrest.

The new MSCI Barra indexes will capture the performance of Russian stocks that are traded outside Russia, during trading halts in Moscow.

The MICEX Stock Exchange and Russia Trading System (RTS) have halted trading for more than a full day twice since September.

What's more, new trading halt rules have been put in place at a furious pace, adding to jittery investors' lack of comfort with Russian equities trading.

Most recently, the Russian regulatory authority on Tuesday implemented a one-hour trading halt in the event that the MICEX or RTS technical indexes rise by more than 10% or fall by more than

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