May 19, 2014 | Basics, Jobs, News
Employment within the hedge fund industry is the primary goal of many college and university students. It is also a goal to which substantial numbers of people currently employed in the broader financial industry aspire. The appeal of the hedge fund industry is...
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 the 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 the 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...
Jan 14, 2014 | Hedge Fund Compensation
The latest report on hedge fund compensation benchmarks shows these professionals received increases in both base and bonus amounts. The average compensation was up 16 percent in 2013 and totaled $330,000. Bonuses were the primary force for the increases, while base...
Jan 7, 2014 | News, Regulation
The year gone by: One of record-breaking index growth, an explosion in the growth of the number of alternative investment firms, strategies that stretched the bounds of human imagination, and the establishment of long-delayed and much-scrutinized regulations. Whether...
