A synoptic presentation of this field of interest would be a daunting task. Public opinion is now more reflexive with regard to risk, resulting in hedge funds becoming a high profile target on the public‘s most wanted list in the backlash. Despite hedge funds being a sideshow in the current...

“It's a Porsche – No! It's a hedge fund...” In 2008 Porsche shocked the world as it appeared to take on hedge funds and made spectacular profits, three times more money than they made from selling cars. This spawned the popular joke that Porsche is “an investment bank with a car showroom...

The official safety net players are paying more attention on containing the current financial crisis with the use of blanket guarantees, and rightly so, without sufficient consideration on the transition from such arrangement to more explicit rules based on mechanisms.The EU in Comparison to...

Law and economics theory champions the view that reduction of transaction costs, development of legally robust economic institutions, and related concepts are central to developing economic growth. Other theorists posit that the “South” is exploited, and domestic foreign investment laws as...

The global economy has been in an interesting position the last year. Many economies of all types, sizes and origins are in fear of, or actually in, recession. The terms ‘credit-crunch' and ‘sub-prime' are common parlance referred to on a daily basis by newspapers and common laity. This is a...