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Marketing Your Hedge Fund

Positive 2010 Outlook for Investors and Hedge Funds

June 10, 2010

In March, Deutsche Bank’s Hedge Fund Capital Group presented a closer look at the current status of the hedge fund industry in its “2010 Alternative Investment Survey” report (see press release).  The report focuses on responses from 606 investors.  42% of the respondents were Fund of Funds, 21% were asset management companies, 12% were family [...]

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Audit Issues from Due Diligence Provider

June 8, 2010

The following article is written by Chris Addy, president and CEO of Castle Hall Alternatives which is a hedge fund due diligence firm. For funds raising assets from institutional investors, the due diligence process will be quite familiar and Chris describes some of the frustrations from the investor/due diligence standpoint.  I would imagine that these issues will [...]

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Hedge Fund Marketing – Building a Strong Brand Identity

January 18, 2010

Importance of Brand Identity Emphasized in Recent White Paper There has been a clear trend over the last 12-18 months for hedge funds to focus on a number of operational issues in order to become more attractive to institutional investors.  While much of focus has been on the risk management side, I have seen more [...]

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NFA Provides Social Networking Compliance Guidance

January 12, 2010

Member Firms Subject to Increased Oversight & Compliance Responsibilities In early December the National Futures Association (“NFA”) submitted two proposed amendments proposed amendments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) regarding NFA Member Firms and their use of the internet and social media networks.  The amendments focus on communications by firms over the internet in [...]

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Hedge Fund Audit Firms and Agreed Upon Procedures

October 27, 2009

Hedge Fund Due Diligence Firm Discusses “Agreed Upon Procedures” We’ve published a number of thoughtful pieces on this blog from Chris Addy, president and CEO of Castle Hall Alternatives (see, for example, article on Hedge Fund Operational Issues and Failures).  Today we are publishing a piece by Chris which discusses hard to value hedge fund [...]

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Raising Hedge Fund Assets | New Market Requires New Strategies

October 13, 2009

http://www.hedgefundlawblog.com As part of our ongoing discussion on how to raise assets for hedge funds, today we have another guest post from Karl Cole-Frieman who specializes in providing legal advice to hedge funds and other alternative asset managers.  Mr. Cole-Frieman specializes in Loan Trading and Distressed Debt Transactions, ISDAs, Soft Dollars and Commission Management arrangements, [...]

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Raising Hedge Fund Capital is Not Easy

September 19, 2009

I have written before that the biggest issue start-up and emerging hedge fund managers face is raising capital for their funds.  I seem to have the same conversation on a weekly basis – the “how to do I grow my fund” conversation.  Unfortunately I do not have the guaranteed step-by-step guide to raising boatloads of [...]

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Hedge Fund Investors Asking for More Meaningful Communication

August 31, 2009

Clients are demanding that investment managers communicate more than just data The following white paper was released by BK Communications Group, a company which provides outsourced marketing and client communications solutions for the asset management industry.  According to a recent survey of institutional hedge fund investors, clients largely prefer that managers take the call for [...]

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Deal Book: New Hedge Fund with Questionable Name

August 19, 2009

The New York Times Deal Book today ran a story about a new hedge fund named Ground Zero Strategic Commodities.  The author of the story noted that: Putting the words “Ground Zero” in a hedge fund name may disturb many people as it undoubtedly conjures up images of the site where the World Trade Center [...]

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Hedge Fund Domain Names

June 28, 2009

Picking a domain name for your hedge fund website Start up hedge fund managers always have the difficult task of thinking up a new, good names for their management company and hedge fund (see Naming Your Hedge Fund).  This difficulty is compounded by the fact that the desired name may not be available to use [...]

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