Creating an Identity for your Hedge Fund Management Company Maybe one of the more important pieces of the management company identity is the logo (the other important piece is the hedge fund management company name).  The logo will generally appear on the management company website, the tearsheets, and potentially even [...]

Are Hedge Fund Managers Lowering Fees? There are a few common topics which have been coming up lately in my conversations with managers.  Of these probably the question of greatest interest deals with what sort of fee structure investors are looking for right now and what kinds of fee concessions [...]

Marketing Your Fund with a One-Pager In addition to hedge fund pitchbooks, managers will market their hedge funds through one page tearsheets.  Hedge fund tearsheets are basically a snapshot of a hedge fund’s performance over time, as of a certain date.   There are a growing number of companies out there [...]

How to write a hedge fund disclaimer One of the more unusual requests (in my opinion) that we receive on this site is how to write a hedge fund disclaimer.  I think that this is unusual because I would assume that most hedge fund managers would want to make sure [...]

Iowa has a very good securities division which is familiar with the rules regarding hedge fund private placements.  The notice below was provided by Iowa’s securities division to inform entities engaging in private placements the specific rules applicable to Iowa.  Notice like this is invaluable to start up hedge funds [...]

Last week we posted our most popular hedge fund articles to date.  This week we are providing start up hedge fund managers with a “hedge fund manager start up guide” which consists of the most important articles for start-up (and existing) hedge fund managers.  The following article provide you with [...]

Blogs have become important tools in the investment management industry and have allowed even the most unsophisticated computer user (ahem….hedgefundlawblog….) to post useful thoughts and information for other industry participants to examine and opine upon. Some hedge fund managers may want to use the internet and blogs to vet ideas [...]

Can a manager lauch a successful hedge fund with less than $1 million in assets?  Yes. While having a large amount of AUM when starting out can be helpful, start up hedge fund managers do not necessarily need to start with a large asset base to have a large, successful [...]

Often word of mouth is the best way to get an idea spread through groups of people – especially when most forms of marketing are not allowed.  One way to make a name for your hedge fund is through your existing investors who provide a source for potential investor referrals.  [...]

Hedge fund managers should be open to investments from all different types of investors including sovereign wealth funds or “SWFs.”  Sovereign Wealth Funds are government owned investment entitites.  Discussion of SWFs is usually with regard to many of the large oil producing countries, but a SWF can be established by [...]