The Global Guide to Hedge Fund Services is published by Fintel Publications.

Fintel, founded in 1987, is an international financial services and capital markets publishing company that publishes market-leading editorial in both print and electronic formats. It also has run international conferences, covering topics such as securitisation, covered bonds, fund administration, corporate treasury, hedge fund administration, and the regulation and taxation of international financial centres.

It is also the leading financial services publisher in Ireland, and has been central to the emergence of Dublin as a financial centre, including its emergence as the world's largest hedge fund administration centre (click here to read recent Fintel articles on hedge fund management and hedge fund administration). Its conferences have featured some of the most important figures in the global funds industry, and in financial services and hedge funds regulation.

Among its publications are the leading Irish financial services journals, Finance Magazine (finance-magazine.com) and Finance Dublin (financedublin.com). It also publishes the Finance Dublin Yearbook of Ireland's Financial Services Centre.

For details of its latest conference see: financedublin.com

Ken O’Brien, Editor in Chief, is the founder of Fintel Publications Ltd. He was formerly a Special Correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, and of AP Dow Jones and was Economics Correspondent and Deputy Business Editor of the Irish Times. He is an economics graduate of Trinity College, Dublin University, and of Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada, where he graduated with a masters degree.
The Editor of the Fintel Guide to Global Hedge Fund Services is Peter O’Dwyer. Peter has over 15 years experience in the international mutual fund and hedge fund industry, working in London, Germany and Ireland. He was the managing director of a successful international equity arbitrage fund and has set up a number of funds of hedge funds and index funds. He is an independent director of a several alternative investment funds in Europe and the Cayman Islands, including the world’s first Sharia hedge fund. He is an economics and business studies graduate of Trinity College Dublin and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He was formerly CEO of Gensec Bank in Europe and also worked as an international financial services tax consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He was a founding member of the editorial board of 'Internationales Steuerrecht', and is an editorial board member of 'Offshore Investment'.
Fiona Reddan, Assistant Editor, has extensive experience in financial services journalism, having edited Finance Magazine for the past three years. She is a graduate in finance and economics of the University of Limerick, and previously worked on Wall Street as an M&A analyst, with investment banking research firm, Dealogic, and as an analyst with Allied Irish Bank.
Dr Eugene McCarthy, chairman, Fintel Publications Ltd. He holds a doctorate in Economic Science, awarded in 1977, from the London School of Economics, and is an economics graduate of Trinity College, Dublin University. He recieved the decoration of Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite, the highest honour a non French national can receive, from the President of France, Mr Jacques Chirac in 1999. He was formerly Deputy Director General of the Federation of Irish Employers, and is director of St James's Place International, and Societe Generale Asset Management (Global Energy Develoment Capital Fund). He spoke at Societe Generale's annual investment conference in Paris in September 2004 on the topic of fund corporate governance.
Valerie Hannigan, Marketing Manager She is a Graduate of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, and is a former Council Member of the Institute. Marketing Manager of Fintel Publications since 1989 she holds a Diploma in Art History from Trinity College Dublin, and was formerly a civil servant in the Law Reform Commission of Ireland.