In this blog post, our goal is to uncover the risk management lessons that hedge fund managers and fund administrators can learn from Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management $30 billion loss. Let’s start with how a hedge fund or in Archegos’ case, a “Family Office” could lose $30 billion when they only had $10 billion […]
Deciphering Net Asset Value (NAV) for Hedge Fund Investors Our goal in this blog is to keep things simple and straight forward so in discussing NAV or Net Asset Value or essentially the Book Value of the fund, we’ll start with the basics. First, a hedge fund appears similar to a mutual fund. Both organizations […]
The team at RyanEyes has been working with Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds for over 15 years and the primary goal for our organization is the increase the productivity and accuracy of the employees in our client firms. In this blog post, we want to clarify the roles and responsibilities of what is commonly […]
The term “Alpha” is gaining use across the finance and investing communities, however many are not sure exactly what it means or how to calculate it. Alpha has been a term frequently used within the hedge fund and alternative asset management industries for years. We ever hear the term consistently on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reddit, […]
How the GameStop Crisis Red Flagged Improving Workflow Management at Hedge Funds The Reddit, GameStop short squeeze crisis increased client anxiety and uncovered risks stemming from poor transparency and workflow within asset management firms including hedge funds, private equity funds, and alternative asset management firms. We know that inherently, asset management firms leverage investing strategies […]
The folks here at RyanEyes serve the finance industry and in particular private equity and hedge funds. As most of you know GameStop and several other heavily shorted stocks identified and bought by investors have had a major impact on hedge funds. In this blog post, we want to explore the story and perhaps give […]
Investor Balance Tracking and Performance Reporting for Hedge Fund and Private Equity Firms Increasing complexity challenges firms that have elected to use a hybrid private equity/hedge fund investor entity structure. It combines the exacting timelines for investor reporting typical of hedge funds with the tailored structures that are also typical of private equity firms. When […]
Maximizing Workflow Efficiency for Fund Managers and Administrators Operations and fund administration in financial services firms has never been more challenging. Handling the complex and mounting responsibility of managing workflow, jobs, tasks, and projects is critical to meeting investor, accounting, and compliance needs. RyanEyes’ software is specifically designed to empower operations with visibility, control, alerts, […]
As a fund manager or fund administrator in a private equity, hedge fund, or other alternative investment firms, the number of tasks that are assigned has grown significantly and for most has become cumbersome, unwieldy, and worst of all risky. What I mean is that with front, middle, and back-office responsibilities including operations, accounting, risk, […]
The Key to Evaluating Investment Opportunities The critical variables in an asset management data warehouse are position, performance, risk, and transaction. Asset managers have had the unenviable task of assembling this data from a variety of intelligence sources to generate the actual calculations, insights, and reports to assess opportunities. To make matters worse, managers had […]
