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The Standards Board for Alternative Investments ( SBAI ), formerly known as the Hedge Fund Standards Board, is an international standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry and sets the voluntary standard of best practices and practices endorsed by its members. Its primary role is to be the custodian of the Alternative ...
Hedge fund. A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk. Among these portfolio techniques are short selling and the use of leverage and derivative instruments. [1]
Current legislation. Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive 2011 (2011/61/EU) is a directive of the European Union on the financial regulation of hedge funds, private equity, real estate funds, and other "Alternative Investment Fund Managers" (AIFMs) in the European Union. [1][2] The Directive requires all covered AIFMs to obtain ...
e. International Financial Reporting Standards, commonly called IFRS, are accounting standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). [ 1 ] They constitute a standardised way of describing the company's financial performance and position so that company financial statements are understandable and ...
Fund accounting is an accounting system for recording resources whose use has been limited by the donor, grant authority, governing agency, or other individuals or organisations or by law. [1] It emphasizes accountability rather than profitability, and is used by nonprofit organizations and by governments. In this method, a fund consists of a ...
Under ESG reporting, organizations are required to present data from financial and non-financial sources that shows they are meeting the standards of agencies such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Data must also be made available to ...
The Santiago Principles or formally the Sovereign Wealth Funds: Generally Accepted Principles and Practices (GAPP) [1] are designed as a common global set of 24 voluntary guidelines that assign best practices for the operations of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). [2][3][4][5][6] They are a consequence of the concern of investors and regulators to ...
Millennium Management is an investment management firm with a multistrategy hedge fund offering. [9] It is one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms with over $67.9 billion assets under management as of August 2024. [10][11] The firm operates in America, Europe and Asia. [12] As of 2022, Millennium had posted the fourth ...