New Hedge Fund Compliance Guideliness

Global Investment Performance Standards or “GIPS” is a set of compliance guidelines published by the CFA Institute that governs things like performance, AUM and NAV reporting by asset managers.  But many hedge fund managers say that GIPS falls short on...

Hedge Funds Forced to Tighten Compliance

The arrest and trial of Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam has pushed hedge funds to take a new and serious look at their compliance practices, reports Reuters. Firms such as Paulson & Co and Millennium Management have reportedly spent millions to hire former...

Success Brings Compliance Headaches for Small Hedge Funds

Even the “guppies” of the hedge fund industry may face compliance headaches and stifling expenses when new regulatory oversight goes into effect this July. So says Frank LaGrange Johnson, who runs LaGrange Capital Partners out of New York. With total...

Dodd Frank Changes Next to Nothing

Washington calls it the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. If you’re starting a hedge fund or if you’re in the business of hedge fund marketing, you can call it largely irrelevant. The 2,319-pager shoots buckshot at the financial...

Financial Reform Bill and Hedge Funds

The House and Senate Conference Committee on Friday finished reconciling the two versions of the financial reform bill and some of the major items are going to affect the hedge funds.  Over the next week and a half we are going to hear more about the details of the...
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