Apr 15, 2014 | Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Tools
Email. How did we ever live without it? Quite well for thousands of years, thank you, but few of us in the workplace today can remember a time when it wasn’t our principal means of correspondence. It does seem to have legs. Back in the 1970s and ’80s,...
Mar 18, 2014 | Basics, Databases, Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Starting a Hedge Fund, Strategies, Technology, Tools
Counting the number of hedge funds in the world is like trying to follow theĀ Major League pitching career of Octavio Dotel. It’s incredibly complicated and subject to sudden change. The former...
Mar 4, 2014 | Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Starting a Hedge Fund
What if you throw a hedge fund party and nobody comes? Maybe you’ve found a niche strategy nobody has thought of yet. Maybe you’ve built a financial model that looks like theĀ Goldman Sachs’s income statement. You’ve got commitments from...
Feb 18, 2014 | Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Starting a Hedge Fund
A hedge fund manager’s model needs to do two very important things besides its principal purpose of finding ways of growing investments in excess of market conditions. It also has to find a way of rewarding the sharp operator who developed it and marketed it....
Feb 4, 2014 | Basics, Hedge Fund Marketing Strategy, Starting a Hedge Fund
If you’re managing a hedge fund, it goes without saying that you’re off-the-scale smart when it comes to the math underlying investment analysis. You probably have a model that can pick winners, winnow out the losers and provide a return on capital...