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performance fee

Revising the Hedge Fund Compensation Structure

April 13, 2009

Syndicated Post on Hedge Fund Fees
I have recently come across a very good blog called Ten Seconds Into the Future by Bryan Goh of First Avenue Partners, a hedge fund seeder.  Bryan’s posts are very insightful and I recommend all managers take a look at his writings.  The post below discusses some possible ways which [...]

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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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Hedge Fund Comments/ Questions and Answers

January 13, 2009

Questions and discussions from Hedge Fund Law Blog readers
I get quite a few questions from readers and usually I am able to answer these questions via email within a couple of days.  If you have any questions, comments or simply want more information on starting a hedge fund, please feel free to contact us.  We [...]

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Hedge Fund Performance Fee Issues for State Registered Investment Advisors

October 31, 2008

One of the problems with the securities laws in the United States is that there are two levels of rules that any person would need to be cognizant of at any single time – the federal rules and the state level rules.
For hedge fund managers which are registered as investment advisors with the SEC, there [...]

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Hedge Fund Performance Fees

October 13, 2008

The hedge fund performance fee (also known as the “performance allocation,” the “incentive allocation,” the “incentive fee,” among other aliases), is a periodic fee which is calculated as a percentage of any gains of a hedge fund over a predetermined period of time.
The fee normally taken on both realized and unrealized gains of the hedge [...]

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