Planning a hedge fund launch is a serious business. People need to decide whether they are truly ready, both financially and mentally, and be confident in their investment strategy. This may sound trite but all too often start-ups rush to get a hedge fund in place without clearly thinking everything
When embarking on any new business, it's important that one not only engages professionals with deep industry knowledge but also commercial knowledge to support the various stages of business growth. For anyone establishing a hedge fund, their needs are going to change as their business evolves from launch to maturity.
The two key questions that will drive fund structuring decisions are: Where is the money coming from and what do you want to do with it? This will determine whether the start-up manager launches a domestic Delaware LP structure, which might be the case if his investors will only be
Oligo Swiss Fund Services received its license from the Swiss authorities 13 months ago to provide Swiss legal representative services and has already onboarded more than 200 funds registered for distribution to Swiss qualified investors. These include offshore hedge funds, UCITS-compliant hedge funds and private equity funds. "Our team has
It is now one year in to the Swiss Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) and overall impressions appear to be that it has been a success. One particular aspect of CISA, namely the requirement for alternative fund managers marketing their funds in Switzerland to "unregulated qualified investors" (eg pension funds,
There was a degree of trepidation among foreign hedge funds when Switzerland formerly introduced a revised version of the Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) on 1 March 2015, bringing hedge funds under the watch of FINMA, Switzerland's financial regulator, for the first time. Previously, only funds that were registered for public
The European Commission must prioritise non-bank finance and deeper capital markets as part of its regulatory review, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). AIMA made the comments in its response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the EU regulatory framework for financial services, published in September
Senior executives at financial services firms are concerned that regulation in the sector is not promoting stability, according to the 2016 Global Regulatory Outlook published by Duff & Phelps. A majority of 193 C-Suite and senior level staff polled by the firm believe that regulation is having little or no
Invest Europe, formerly the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, has published its 2015 Professional Standards Handbook, "a comprehensive and up-to-date set of standards and guidelines for the private equity industry". Invest Europe says the Handbook reflects the heightened standards of transparency and accountability being pursued by investors in
AMG Funds and Pantheon, have finalised the 1933 Act registration of the AMG Pantheon Fund making it more widely available to accredited investors seeking access to a diversified, institutional-calibre portfolio of private equity through a single investment. The Fund is a multi-manager vehicle that seeks diversification across all key private
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