ISC (Investment Solutions Consultants) is a Limited Liability Partnership exclusively serving the investment management community. ISC work with many of the largest global and UK investment managers, product vendors and niche asset managers. We aim to partner with our clients to maximise the value of the systems and processes underpinning their businesses. ISC provides consulting skills and experience across the spectrum of investment management solutions - from system selection and implementation to operating model review and design; from programme and project management to business analysis; from front to middle and back offices; from investment managers to service providers. ISC is driven by the belief that the investment management community demands its consulting partners give value through providing quality resources that are able to quickly grasp the challenges and assist them in delivering solutions. www.iscllp.com

Sapient’s Trading and Risk Management (TRM) Practice brings more than sixteen years of applying business, technology and process experience to fully service trading and risk enterprises. Leveraging deep industry knowledge, global capabilities and a relentless drive toward innovation, Sapient partners with its TRM clients to

improve their businesses, transform their operations, expand their client base and maximize profitability. The company’s TRM clients include global investment banks, tier one hedge funds, buy-side firms, major oil and energy merchant companies and government entities. Last year, Sapient acquired London-based

Derivatives Consulting Group Limited (DCG), a leading provider of derivatives consulting and outsourcing services to investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers and commercial banking clients. With this acquisition, Sapient now has a globally integrated service in derivatives processing within its TRM Practice. www.sapient.com

The Hedge Fund Association is an international, not-for-profit organization of hedge fund managers, service providers, and investors. Objectives include education of legislators, the media and investing public about the true facts of hedge fund investing, and in so doing, to improve the image of hedge funds. Contact us at 202-478-2000; 202-478-1999 (fax); info@thehfa.org or www.thehfa.org.

Albourne Village, a virtual hedge fund community with over 44,000 active residents, is a free and independent website for anyone interested in alternative investments. It incorporates a virtual pub and library to exchange news, views and IP, a job centre, conference centre and School. The Data Farm offers a daily update on key hedge fund indices alongside Albourne Partners’ ‘Weather Forecasts’, which estimate how conducive the prevailing underlying market environment is for a variety of hedge fund trading strategies. The Village is also home to a vast number of established industry contacts.

Don't just join the Village, be the Village.

The world’s most widely used source of information on the private equity and venture capital industry is becoming even more valuable.  Get the information you need and join over 10,000 private equity professionals who use the site every day.

We’re bringing you: more content to address your daily news needs and your ongoing research requirements, more website features to enable you to customise your pages to filter and prioritise the information you receive, and more ways to connect with the global private equity community. Come and see the new AltAssets for yourself: www.altassets.net

Alternative Asset Adviser (a3), is the first online publication that addresses the need amongst UK and European financial advisers for alternative asset product news, analysis and education. Brought to you by the experienced editorial team at London-based Hedgemedia www.hedgemedia.com, a3 is delivered as a PDF ten times a year to over 18,000 financial advisers who have requested regular information on alternative assets and specialist funds. a3 allows product providers of funds of hedge funds, real estate funds, venture capital trusts, ETFs, structured funds, Ucits III products and many more specialised investment vehicles a unique forum through which they can reach financial advisers and product distributors across the UK and Europe.

DW Online is the latest real-time, web-based news service dedicated to the global over-the-counter derivatives market, providing comprehensive coverage of the derivatives markets including credit, equity, fixed income and currency derivatives as well as structures and underlyings. With reporters based in New York, London and Hong Kong, DW Online provides more breaking news and international coverage than any other source, keeping you up-to-date with the latest developments in your area. 

DerivSource is the online community and information source for professionals active in derivatives processing, technology and related services.

Founded by a financial journalist, DerivSource provides industry news, analysis, educational resources and researching tools to help market participants keep well informed in this fast-paced industry. The content covers both exchange-traded and OTC derivatives.

The DerivSource community is an independent venue where members participate in industry discussions with their peers and expand their business networks virtually. The facility includes discussion forums and network management tools.

Eurekahedge is the world’s largest independent data provider and research house focusing on alternative investments. Maintaining coverage over 20,400 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurkahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide. Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived; an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund, real estate fund, enhanced equity fund (SRI) and socially responsible investment fund (SRI) databases; as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors. Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in London, New York and Singapore. For more information, please contact Agnes Yea, Director of Marketing and Communications at agnes@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0900. US toll free: 1866 -3451 124, UK toll free: 0808 2343 386

Global Fund Wire is a dedicated news service for institutional investors and their fund managers.  The content is weighted towards the traditional , long-only sector within this industry.  The site  includes news on updates on new fund launches, investment trends, regulatory news and distribution strategies, and a regular series of market surveys and fund manager interviews.  Global Fund Wire produces a free daily newsletter covering essential news and features within the asset management industry.  

Hedgeweek is the hedge fund industry’s leading portal on news and topical features including updates on new fund launches, investment trends, regulatory news and distribution strategies, and a regular series of market surveys and fund manager interviews.  Hedgeweek produces a free weekly and a daily newsletter covering essential news and features within the Hedge Fund industry. 

Total Alternatives is a real-time web-based news service on hedge funds, private equity, real estate and other alternatives, plus the bankers and investors that populate the market. Every day our journalists deliver the latest news on new hedge fund launches and closings, investment strategies and investment trends. Stories are posted as the reporters get them to make sure you are the first to know the critical market intelligence. The Data Zone section provides in-depth data analysis on hedge funds broken out by strategy and including rate of returns, annualized volume and assets.

Total Securitization & Credit Investment is a real-time web-based news service with coverage on the ABS, MBS, CMBS and CDO markets, primary credit, corporate loans and bonds, secondary trading and distressed credits.  Widely read by hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, banks, boutiques and institutional money managers, Total Securitization & Credit Investment is your reliable source for breaking news, new strategies and emerging trends in the securitization, loan, bond and distressed debt credit markets.  It also includes news on investment strategies of portfolio managers, CFOs and fund managers, comprehensive coverage of buy- and sell-side activity, new fund launches, new products, people moves and more! Sign up for a free trial today –  www.totalsecuritization.com/Signup.aspx?LS=W9B802

Wall Street Letter serves as your window to the Street. It is the only publication that keeps Wall Street informed of what's happening inside their community—trading firms, exchanges, and every corner of the market including research, securities, dealers, retail brokerages, and regulators.  In addition, Wall Street Letter now includes extended coverage from Operations Management, featuring back-office issues of broker/dealers, investment adviser firms and custodian banks. This increased coverage dovetails with the increasing emphasis on harmonizing and streamlining a firm’s securities processing business, from the front to back office, and a greater emphasis on clearing and technology businesses among exchanges.