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Hedge Fund Databases | Survey of Databases

March 8, 2010

Hedge fund databases are online databases that collect and publish information and performance results from hedge fund managers who list their fund.  Usually these databases are open to accredited investors who subscribe to the website.
Aside from providing basic information on the hedge fund, including the name of the fund, the manager, and contact information, the [...]

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Hedge Fund Operations During a Pandemic

November 14, 2009

Thoughts on Business Continuity Planning
Over the past week, I have attended a couple of interesting panel discussions on the hedge fund industry.  At these events, one of the common themes was that the investment management industry is changing and hedge fund management companies need to make sure that operations are tight - this means that [...]

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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 assets [...]

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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 transparency [...]

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Hedge Fund Operational Issues and Failures

August 19, 2009

Hedge Fund Due Diligence Firm Releases White Paper
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 Auditors).  Today we are publishing a press release which announces a new white paper from Castle Hall detailing the various reasons [...]

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Hedge Funds and Investors: June 2009

July 9, 2009

Overview of the Hedge Fund Industry in June

It is nice to have a chance to step back from the regulatory side to see the big picture of the hedge fund industry.  The article below discusses what is currently happening in the various hedge fund strategies and what investors are looking for from managers.  The article [...]

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Hedge Fund Investors - What are investors looking for?

June 5, 2009

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 are manages granting to investors.  In [...]

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Hedge Fund Due Diligence Firm Drops Ball, Receives Fine

April 26, 2009

In what represents an unbelievable screw-up, professed hedge fund due diligence firm Hennessee Group was charged by the SEC with not performing the due diligence it supposedly provided to hedge fund investors who used their services.  According to the SEC Administrative Order, Henessee did not perform certain key elements of the due diligence process which [...]

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Hedge Fund Registration Quick Facts

February 3, 2009

Hedge Fund Transparency Act of 2009 Overview
This article provides an overview of the major provisions of the Hedge Fund Transparency Act of 2009.  There are two major things that the HFTA does: (1) increases regulation of hedge funds under the Investment Company Act and (2) requires hedge funds to adopt anti-money laundering programs.
Changes under the [...]

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