Hedge Fund Administration includes functions related to the fund’s operations including regulatory and compliance, fund accounting, audit oversight, investor reporting, and tax requirements. However, one of the most important functions of the Hedge Fund Administration or more specifically Fund Administrators themselves is the calculation of the firm’s Net Asset Value or NAV. While critical, the […]
This Part 2 of our two-part blog post series discussing the significant trend we are tracking in Hedge Fund investment in Crypto including BitCoin, Ethereum, and many other Crypto coins, platforms, and other technologies. In the blog post, we’ll pick up where we left off, however, we are going to dive deep into the Crypto […]
In the blog post, we’re digging into a couple of excellent surveys to understand how invested Hedge Funds are in digital assets such as Bitcoin and how much that investment may increase in the coming years. Our first survey found that traditional hedge funds are willing to increase their exposure in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency […]
Let’s start this blog post with a broad look at hedge funds and then dig into why and how hedge funds are adding alternative investments to their portfolios. First, a hedge fund operates much like an ETF or mutual fund, but is essentially an unregulated common fund, and thus has much more investment choices or […]
In this blog post, we are going to address specifically how Geneva accounting software functions on the two leading cloud providers: AWS and Microsoft Azure. Frankly, in terms of implementation, functionality, and management, the differences between the platform are significant so we wanted to provide our findings so that you can choose the right platform […]
Side pocket accounts have a long history in the hedge fund industry, yet the use of side pockets is expanding dramatically to the chagrin of fund administrators who have to manage the complex accounts. Briefly, a side pocket is a type of account utilized in hedge funds to segregate riskier or illiquid assets from more […]
What is an Accounting Repository? Traditional accounting packages include both the ability and function to calculate accounting results as well as the ability to store and report accounting results. For example, most accounting packages will calculate journal entries and update ledger accounts and then store the full history of those journal entries and ledgers in […]
Automating Investment Fund Operations to Overcome the New, Dramatic Challenges Facing Our Industry Hedge funds, private equity, and alternative investment funds are poised to undergo several dramatic changes over the coming months and years. A fund’s operations, including functions such as regulatory and compliance, fund accounting, audit oversight, investor reporting, and tax requirements, are changing […]
Last month, Infinity Q was forced to liquidate its mutual fund, the Infinity Q Diversified Alpha Fund, after the SEC told Infinity Q it had learned that James Velissaris, the firm’s founder and CIO, “had been adjusting certain parameters within the third-party model that affected the valuation of the swaps,” in a February notice to […]
In this blog post, we will discuss the likelihood of increased scrutiny of hedge funds and alternative investment funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Biden administration. Based on the actions taken by the administration in its first 100 days as well as the rhetoric and past actions of the administration’s key […]
