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Investment Advisory Fees | Hedge Fund Performance Fees and Management Fees

September 12, 2009

Review of State Investment Advisory Fee Rules
One of the things I have tried to emphasize within this blog is that there is no “one size fits all” legal solution to hedge fund formation.  Each client/manager has a unique set of circumstances and will be subject to a potentially different sets of laws or regulations depending [...]

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Hedge Fund Taxes May Increase under Obama

February 23, 2009

Obama to Propos Taxing Hedge Fund Carried Interest
Groups such as the New York Times and Daily Finance are reporting that Obama’s proposed fiscal 2010 budget, which will be released tomorrow, will include provisions which will increase taxes for hedge fund managers (and private equity fund managers).   Such a provision would likely be written to provide [...]

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Hedge Fund Taxation - Law School Professor Perspective

January 14, 2009

Overview of Hedge Fund Taxation
The following is a reprint of the Joseph Bankman’s testimony before Congress.  Mr. Bankman is a professor at Stanford Law School.  While the testimony has a bias against the current hedge fund taxation structure, it provides a great overview of hedge fund tax issue, specifically the taxation of the hedge fund [...]

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What expenses does a hedge fund pay for?

August 17, 2008

Question: What costs does a hedge fund pay for and what costs does the hedge fund management company pay for?
Answer: This is another very common question. Most hedge fund offering documents provide a boilerplate approach for splitting costs between the hedge fund and the management company. The general rule of thumb is that [...]

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