Sep 24, 2018 | Basics, Starting a Hedge Fund
Founders of new hedge funds often start with their own money, the money of relatives, the money of friends or some combination of the three. The fledgling money manager’s immediate, if not only concern, is investing those funds to make gains for himself, his...
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 17, 2013 | Starting a Hedge Fund, Strategies
When starting a hedge fund, determining in which country to launch the new fund is among the highest priorities of a manager. The decision of where to domicile the new fund can have a huge impact on the type of investors that will be attracted, associated...
