Agecroft Partners specialises in consulting and third party marketing for hedge funds. Its objective: to raise assets globally for institutional-quality hedge fund managers by utilising a consultative approach within the institutional investor community. The firm was founded by Don Steinbrugge, who has 28 years of experience in the institutional investment management industry. The six senior professionals at the firm pride themselves on having strong investment and industry knowledge giving them significant credibility with large institutional investors. The partners each average over 16 years of industry experience and a majority have previously worked for multi-billion dollar alternative investment firms. Agecroft is

We believe that our investment funds group in Cayman has made great strides in the last few years. We’ve recruited some excellent people and have also been joined by some outstanding lateral hires,” comments Neal Lomax (pictured), managing partner of Mourant Ozannes’ Cayman Islands Office and co-head of its investment funds practice. Mourant Ozannes is the largest offshore law firm in Jersey and Guernsey, and is the market leader in both jurisdictions. Last year saw the firm open up offices in Hong Kong and BVI, and move into state of the art new premises at the Camana Bay development in

The increased pressure hedge fund managers are under today in terms of investor due diligence and regulatory compliance means that partnering with the right service providers is a key consideration. Sidley Austin is one of the leading law firms in the alternative investment space. As such, this necessity for alternative fund managers to mitigate operational risk has placed Sidley Austin firmly in their minds to help them stay current with the fast-changing regulatory and compliance landscape. This is especially true for start-up managers. As Michael Schmidtberger, Co-head of Sidley’s Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives Group observes, 2013 has been a

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett The daily churn of ominous news stories surrounding the travails of SAC Capital Advisors has focused on the investigation and withdrawal of assets by jittery investors. But something else is being drained from SAC even faster than money – reputational capital. Replacing that will be a far greater challenge than finding new investors, according to Tom Walek, Founder of Walek & Associates. From defining market position to managing media visibility, taking charge in crisis situations, supporting portfolio holdings, improving investor outreach, safekeeping reputations,

Being based in Chicago is ideal for a firm like Turnkey Trading Partners that specialises in supporting the many needs of derivatives firms looking to operate within the CFTC and NFA regulatory environment. The firm’s founder, James Bibbings (pictured), says that it is a pre-requisite that all members of staff have “an extensive background in derivatives operations before joining us. Our depth of experience in the derivatives space means that when new regulations come out we can quickly discern their impact, both operationally and from a regulatory perspective, for our clients.” Turnkey provides regulatory consulting, brokerage and fund accounting, as

This is the second consecutive year that Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP has won this award, complementing three straight years as Best North American Accounting Firm. According to Jeffrey Rosenthal, CPA, Partner-in-Charge of Anchin’s Financial Services Group, it’s no fluke: “I believe it truly reflects the level of commitment to service that we provide to our clients. We’re not commodity-driven. What sets us apart in auditing, tax and advisory services, and accounting, is our level of attention and high partner touch ratio. Our partners get to know the fund managers and their perspectives. We’re proactive in dealing with tax planning

New York-headquartered Liquidnet is a global institutional trading network that connects buy-side institutions to global equity markets. As such it supports the primary need of institutions: to buy or sell large blocks of stock in a secure, anonymous fashion with minimum price movement. Today, Liquidnet connects more than 700 of the world’s top asset managers to execute their business across 42 markets spanning five continents. With US and European equity markets performing strongly in 2013, the flow of funds into off-exchange venues like Liquidnet is rising as institutions take on higher conviction. “There are more funds flowing into equities generally,

It’s been a positive year for SunGard’s hedge fund business, which secured a number of large new customers including Industry Funds Management (IFM) in Australia. Two of the primary drivers behind this success are the continued popularity of VPM, the company’s portfolio accounting and reporting system, and Hedge360, a modular, integrated platform that launched 18 months ago. VPM and other solutions within the SunGard suite are able to integrate seamlessly into Hedge360, which gives hedge fund managers a complete front to back office solution. With respect to VPM, SunGard has focused closely in recent years on enhancing its capabilities in

CurAlea Associates LLC has been named the Best Risk Management Software Firm for the second consecutive year. The Hedgeweek USA Awards recognise excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers around the world as determined by the votes of Hedgeweek’s 41,000 subscribers. Princeton, New Jersey-based CurAlea Associates LLC was established in 2010 by Seb Calabro and Peter Ort (pictured) to provide risk advisory services to hedge funds and other buyside clients.  The firm delivers high touch, high value-added services to clients via quantitative portfolio risk analyses and qualitative interpretations of portfolio risk.  CurAlea’s hedge fund clients are principally fundamental equity long/short managers and have

Founded by hedge fund titan Julian Robertson in 1980, Tiger Management LLC became one of the most successful and lauded hedge funds. At its peak in 1998, Tiger Management was running USD22billion in assets. In 2000, Robertson decided to take a step back and return money to external investors. Tiger Management LLC took the form that continues to this day, primarily as an investor and seeder of other hedge funds. Gill Caffray re-joined Tiger Management LLC as chief investment officer in 2011. In addition to Caffray, Robertson’s son, Alex Robertson, became president and COO of Tiger Management LLC this January,