Jun 8, 2011 | Basics, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund
If you’re starting a hedge fund, you need a hedge fund administrator. You’re likely to fail at marketing your hedge fund to institutional investors without one. You might not even be able to secure a banker for routine transactions if you’re leaving...
Apr 20, 2011 | Basics, Regulation, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund
The demise of hedge fund hotels never happened. Years after UBS got caught by Massachusetts regulators steering its tenants none-too-subtly toward its trading operations, dozens if not hundreds of business centers around the world continue catering to managers engaged...
Apr 6, 2011 | Basics, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund
One make-or-break decision anyone starting a hedge fund has to face is who to tap as a prime broker. Pinning down a skill set for this role can prove challenging because one size — or even a dozen — doesn’t fit all. You can’t bring the prime...
Mar 2, 2011 | Basics, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund
Let’s be clear about what you’re getting from when you hire a hedge fund attorney: somebody to write your offering memo. Other miscellaneous legal matters always come up, but that’s basically it. It’s boilerplate stuff. Lawyers “play a...
Jan 27, 2011 | Basics, Jobs, Services, Starting a Hedge Fund
Starting a hedge fund is the ultimate small business launch: low barriers to entry, loose regulation and, if you know what you’re doing, transcendent profitability. But, like any other entrepreneur, the fledgling hedge fund manager needs to understand how and...
