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An increasingly important issue for hedge funds targeting European markets is the choice of domicile and listing.
One of the most popular approaches in recent years has been to domicile fund
The first of a six-part guide by Dermot S.L. Butler, Chairman of Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Limited (Custom House).
1. What is Administration?
“Administration”, in the context of Alternative Investment and Hedge Funds means, in effect, the management of the Fund in virtually all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the Fund, except the actual investment of the assets, which is the responsibility of the Investment Manager.
In this role, the Administrator is always answerable to the Board of Directors or Trustees of the Fund and does not have any actual management control.
In simple
Only 10 years ago, the image of a typical hedge fund operation would have been of a compact office on Park Avenue or Wall Street, a small yet highly motivated te
By the end of the 20th century, hedge fund strategies were no longer viewed as ‘isolated cases’.
Local regulations have until 2003 been a major constraint to launch hedge funds in Germany, and have prevented German investors from directly investing in non-German funds.<
A number of US and Canadian portfolio managers are integrating equity derivatives as cash alternatives, going beyond their more accustomed use of these products as instrumen
Goldmans Sachs operates one of the largest funds of hedge businesses in the world . In this interview with Hedgeweek, Hugh Lawson outlines the scale of the business and its strategy in Europe.
HW: What is the scale of the funds of hedge funds business at Goldman Sachs?
HL: We currently operate across North America, Europe and Asia with US$6.5 billion in assets under management in funds of hedge funds across all main sectors of the hedge fund universe.
HW: What is your target market in Europe?
We operate in all the major markets in Europe but concentrate on large
One good way of annoying fund salesmen, those from publicly-listed investment groups like Investec, Man Group or Singer & Friedlander, is to enquire whether
