Marketing vs. Legal/Compliance: Developing an Alternative Investment Website

Guest Post: Holly Singer, President of HS Marketing, a firm dedicated to helping firms in the alternative investment community achieve lasting impressions, contributes with to The Final Meeting with a piece on balancing marketing needs and compliance requirements in relation to creating an alternative investment website.

Most successful managers of alternative investments know that frequent communication [...]

Hedge Connection’s Upcoming Virtual Event

Hedge Connection has partnered with PrecisionIR Group to bring to the alternative investment industry the Global Hedge Fund Forum – A Virtual Symposium of Leading Hedge Funds and Investors.
This online event offers qualified investors a unique opportunity to research investment opportunities, connect with hedge fund managers and interact with fellow investors within the powerful Leebug [...]

Always Be Marketing: February 2010 Edition

In this month’s post I continue to cover the allocations to the larger funds (be patient smaller funds, your time is coming) and the infrastructure characteristics investors look for in funds that attract the biggest/best alternative investors. I also touch on how larger funds have recently put more emphasis on their marketing/investor relations departments. If [...]

Hedge Connection to participate in HedgeWorld Webinar “Emerging Manager Fund Raising”

Join Andrew Saunders from Hedge Connection and representatives from Armored Wolf, Hovan Capital Management, Hadelrock Capital Management and Schulte Roth on Wednesday December 15, 2009 for a 90 minute webinar on the issues Emerging Managers face raising capital in 2010.

“UCITS III for Non-Dummies” from Norman Chait, CFA of Nardis Advisors

Thought – and action – piece from Nardis Advisors on UCITS III funds.

Guest Post: Haunted hedge fund managers getting no sleep

Haunted hedge fund managers getting no sleep
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What keeps you up at night, and what are you doing about it?
by Bruce Frumerman, Frumerman & Nemeth Inc.

Editor Note: This week we welcome a guest post from Hedge fund communications guru and friend of the firm, Bruce Frumerman.  We welcome his insights and look forward to [...]

Marketing in a “Post-Trust” Environment

Three items crossed my desk last week that reminded me that we are not in a post-madoff world, we are in a post-trust world.
1. The first point was the headline grabbing news that Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam was indicted for insider trading. One can only imagine how the blossoming networks of hedge funds, analysts and [...]

Hedgeworld Conference Panel Recap

Recap of Oct. 6, 2009 Hedgeworld panel on “Pitching Investors”

10 Operational Due Diligence “Dealbreakers”

Useful insights from the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association Conference held in New York last week. Operational due diligence representatives from a major investment bank platform, seeder, pension fund board member and family office shared their due diligence dealbreakers.

Hedge Connection to participate in The 4th Annual Meeting of the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association

Andrew is speaking on the subject of hedge fund marketing at the 9/24 HF Business Operations Association Conference