As part of our Hedge Fund Startup Guide please see our list of hedge fund backers below: Affiliated Managers Group Boston Brett Perryman Public company has taken equity stakes in four hedge fund shops: AQR Capital, Blue Mountain, First Quadrant and Value Act. Asset Alliance New York Bruce Lipnick Twice has backed off plans to sell stock to the public, most recently in August and in 1998. Offers operational and marketing support in exchange for 50% ownership of management companies. BRI Partners Chicago Adam Brass Provides investment capital in exchange for marketing and operational support. Boxtree Capital Rumson N.J. Robert Picard 732-939-9000 Founded earlier this year by former Optima Fund Management chief investment officer Robert Picard, the firm has not yet made any acquisitions. Hopes to buy minority interests in funds of funds and ...

Bernie Madoff was a stock broker "managing" client accounts. He was never part of the hedge fund industry. His firm was "regulated" and fraud is already illegal. He did not charge 2 and 20 and had no prime broker, proper auditor or independent administrator. Few sophisticated investors invested directly with so many red flags. Due diligence ITSELF is an alpha source. Diversification with NUMEROUS strategies and managers is MANDATORY. Despite his "performance" Bernie was not a billionaire. With those "returns" on that asset size he should have been a stalwart of the Forbes 400. The chart below is the Madoff feeder, Fairfield Sentry, versus Gateway, GATEX, a mutual fund running the same strategy. Suspicious outperformance in the 1990s went from bad to worse in 2001. Split strike conversion is a ...

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The downturn of the markets, recent fraud cases and pending regulatory changes the time is ripe for a widely accepted set of principles to act by. I would like to start a discussion here on what such a code of ethics for hedge funds should include. There are some financial non-profit groups which have proposed standards but their interests are diverse and many of them do not work within the hedge fund industry. By working with the 50 Advisory Board members of the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) and visitors to this site I would like to help put together a brief and simple code of ethics for the hedge fund industry. The end product would ...

I just found a PDF on family offices which lays out 5 differences between wealth management firms and family offices. Since I get many questions related to what family offices do and how marketers can reach them I thought this list may help: Top 5 Differences Between Wealth Management & Family Offices Clients informed of all the risks and advantages of every decision, thus empowering them to understand the impact of the choices they make and the effect on their long-term goals. They provide sophisticated investment advice and implementation to meet the customized needs of taxable families with complex wealth structures. They add value by working collaboratively, combining internal resources with a client’s team of advisors to develop unique solutions to ...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Funds Definition/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Funds Definition | Myths, Facts amp; Trends/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvOIXH13bI/AAAAAAAACrI/-nyWNrdiE0M/s1600-h/Hedge-Funds-Definition-Trends.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvOIXH13bI/AAAAAAAACrI/-nyWNrdiE0M/s200/Hedge-Funds-Definition-Trends.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281541631063219634" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) I just found a great informational report on hedge funds put out by Hedge Info. This report identifies top industry trends as:br /ulliDeleveraging amp; redemption notices/liliRedemptions + lossing = further losses/liliChange brings opportunity/liliThe 3 D's - Diversification, Darwinism and Due Diligence/li/ulWhy hedge funds are popular in the first place:br /ulliProducing above market returns over long periods of time/liliThe appeal of relatively uncorrelated returns/liliAccess to unique or illiquid asset classes only available to those with large amounts of capital or specialized knowledge/li/ulWhat is going to happen (according to this report)br /ulliMore regulation/liliHedge funds adapting to using less leverage overall/liliDue diligence will be even more important/liliThere is a ...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bNew Prime Brokerage Model/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvGhHYSIaI/AAAAAAAACrA/bkbv9SI9Bmo/s1600-h/Prime-Brokerage-Trends.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUvGhHYSIaI/AAAAAAAACrA/bkbv9SI9Bmo/s200/Prime-Brokerage-Trends.jpg" alt="New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging" title="New Prime Brokerage Model Emerging" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281533260240920994" border="0" //aThe credit crisis and the subject of counter party risk is proving to be the final nail in the coffin for the hedge fund industry's single prime brokerage model. Funds of all sizes now demand multiple custodial relationships.br /br /The problem the high-cost-structure leading a href="http://primebrokerageguide.com"prime brokerage/a firms now face is that without the assurance of the captive single prime model the economics of servicing smaller funds no longer make sense. This reality combined with the primes' decreased risk tolerance means that we are seeing a mass exodus away from the top-tier primes. Anecdotal evidence suggests that these ...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Advertising/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Ideasbr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" alt="Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas" title="Hedge Fund Marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUiIsG1ZZbI/AAAAAAAACqw/8JSq313Ucb8/s200/Hedge-Fund-Advertising-Marketing-Restrictions.jpg" alt="Hedge Fund Advertising amp; Marketing Restrictions | Ideas" title="Hedge Fund Advertising Restrictions" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280620854422103474" border="0" //a(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com)There are many restrictions on hedge fund advertising and marketing. Due to the broad mandates and relatively lenient registration and disclosure rules hedge funds in the United States are only allowed to accept investments from accredited investors and institutions.br /br /While this means hedge funds cannot take out TV or radio commercials there are many more gray areas where many hedge funds are now “promoting” or “branding” themselves. I never provide financial advice on HedgeFundBlogger.com and this is surely not a recommended or list of ...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBernard Madoff/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Bernard Madoff Hedge Fund Risks | Letterbr //span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUL7gaCq4MI/AAAAAAAACqI/asPyKc8uNIQ/s1600-h/Bernard-Madoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUL7gaCq4MI/AAAAAAAACqI/asPyKc8uNIQ/s200/Bernard-Madoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279058247396548802" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related to the Bernard Madoff hedge fund fraud case/span - A hedge fund investor just sent me a letter he received from his hedge fund of fund. This is interesting because funds are learning to react very quickly to these types of fraud events to separate themselves from the situation. It also points out that Madoff's hedge fund traded through and was its own custodian of the assets of their own hedge fund - a often frowned upon approach which most hedge funds do not use.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Here is the letter:/spanbr /br /As many of you are aware, yesterday evening the SEC initiated proceedings against ...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bBernard Madoff/b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUKy3x3S9vI/AAAAAAAACqA/Vrcktmqe6jw/s1600-h/Bernard-Maddoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud-Case.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SUKy3x3S9vI/AAAAAAAACqA/Vrcktmqe6jw/s200/Bernard-Maddoff-Hedge-Fund-Fraud-Case.jpg" alt="Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud" title="Bernard Madoff Case amp; Hedge Fund Fraud" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278978384579458802" border="0" //aNews came out last night that Bernard Madoff may have fraudulently lost his clients up to $50B. He is accused of running a Ponzi scheme in what some say is the largest fraud case since Enron.br /br /This is going to encourage government officials to layer on additional regulation of hedge funds across the industry. The loose term "hedge fund" has led to a rapid expansion of the industry over the past 10 years but it also means that when any investment related bad press surfaces someone may have been running what gets referred to ...