Dodd-Frank and New SEC Rulemaking Initiatives

We welcome guest contributor Seymour Bucholz, a seasoned transactional attorney focused on corporate and regulatory matters for broker-dealer clients at Garvey Schubert Barer. Mr. Bucholz is presenting a white paper discussing the impact of the forthcoming Dodd-Frank Act.
Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will impact virtually every professional investment [...]

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 [...]

Big 12 Best Practices Plus 4 Quant & 3 Qual Minimums

Guest Post: Industry expert and guest contributor Ron Suber discusses the Big 12 Hedge Fund Best practices and the Four Quantitative and Three Qualitative  Minimums for Hedge Funds.
Big 12 Hedge Fund Best Practices
1)   Written compliance and employee trading policies with periodic attestation
2)   Multiple levels of authority on cash movements with a minimum of 2 people [...]

Hedge Connection Makes Compliance Partnerships for 2010

Happy New Year!
If there is one thing I am sure about, it is that the hedge fund industry is not going away. That is clear.  Even with all of the problems this industry faced last year, hedge funds still outperformed long only funds and added the much-desired alpha to many portfolios. The best and the [...]