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Prime Brokerages Assisting With Hedge Fund Marketing

Mar 28, 2011 | Basics

The good news is that the hedge fund industry is about to surpass its high water mark of roughly $2 billion in assets sometime during 2011, reports the Financial Times. The bad news is that the turmoil of the past two years has left the fund industry permanently...

Getting Your Money’s Worth from Hedge Fund Attorneys

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...

How to Assemble Your Hedge Fund Team

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...

Hedge Fund Marketing and Prime Brokers

Dec 20, 2010 | Basics

Until recently, hedge funds that lacked the resources to hire their own marketing teams often relied on small, independent third-party hedge fund marketing companies to introduce them to big investors. But that’s changing rapidly, according to a recent article...

Starting a Hedge Fund – Determine Your Investment Strategy

Nov 30, 2010 | Basics, Starting a Hedge Fund, Strategies

So you are starting a hedge fund. You’ve just thought up a cool fund name, filed your LLC paperwork, asked your rich uncle for some seed money and had business cards printed up saying you’re the president and chief investment officer of your very own hedge...

Hedge Fund Marketing for Small Funds

Nov 9, 2010 | Basics

Here is an interview with Alex Bentley, a partner at Coronado Investments, LLC, a third party marketer. He shares his thoughts on the importance of third party marketing and provides some hedge fund marketing insights for smaller firms. HFMA: It’s a tough time for...