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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
