The current global crisis (whose origins lie in the functionality of financial markets) has diverse repercussions for intellectual capital creation (i.e. human and structural assets as well as their components). The phenomenon is linked with limited resources being allocated to innovative...

The hedge fund industry represents a significant and viable alternative for mainstream investment business clientèle, as well as a growing number of sophisticated high net worth individuals. The hedge fund raison d'être has been relative independence of other (more traditional) asset classes...