Ted Ryan, founder, and president of RyanEyes, explains to HFMWeek how his firm is helping Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds overcome the accounting challenges side pockets pose. You can read the interview on HFM Connect Here: https://www.hfmconnect.global/posts/solving-hedge-funds-side-pocket-conundrum As we discussed in our blog post “How Side Pockets are Used by Hedge Funds,” side pockets […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Primer on Fund Compliance Management Hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles that provide investment exposure to risk factors not associated with traditional investing use a broad range of portfolio strategies and are open to a similarly broad range of compliance issues. Their investors demand strong disclosure, valuation, risk management, trading, and compliance practices. […]