Below is our quarterly newsletter.  If you would like to be added to our distribution list, please contact us. **** July 31, 2010 www.colefrieman.com Clients and Friends, We take this opportunity to provide you with a brief overview of the major items we have reported on over the last quarter.  While [...]

Below is our quarterly newsletter.  If you would like to be added to our distribution list, please contact us. **** April 1, 2010 www.colefrieman.com Cole-Frieman &  Mallon LLP Quarterly Newsletter Clients and Friends, We take this opportunity to provide you with a brief overview of the major items we have [...]

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 [...]

Ongoing Legal Issues For Hedge Fund Managers While many of the posts on this blog deal with start-up and regulatory issues that hedge fund managers face, we also are aware that there are many ongoing legal issues which affect the business of the fund.  Below is a guest post from [...]

California Based Hedge Fund Managers Receive Answers to Common Questions As I have discussed many times before, each state securities division has different rules and regulations.  In addition, each state has different interpretations of those rules and regulations. This makes it difficult for hedge fund managers to really know exactly [...]

How to Start a Hedge Fund in 2009 Below is a link to a powerpoint presentation in which I detail the background information a hedge fund manager must have prior to starting the hedge fund formation process.  The presentation is designed to familiarize a manager with the process of forming [...]

FAQs on Offering Documents I recently read an article by a hedge fund administration firm which discussed hedge fund offering documents and start up hedge fund expenses.  I thought this was an interesting topic and one which is popular with many of my start up clients.  Below I discuss some [...]

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 [...]

Starting a hedge fund in the District of Columbia In DC, things are starting to get back to normal post-election.  Hedge fund and investment managers who are located in DC, however, will generally need to be registered as investment advisors with the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (ISB).  I’ve [...]

Commodity Firms Need to Complete Annual Regulatory Information The NFA recently released a regulatory reminder to firms which are registered as commodity pool operators and/or commodity trading advisors.  The reminder reminds CPOs and CTAs that there are certain annual regulatory items which a firm must complete in order to remain [...]