Fund Administration

Important Date: Saturday January 15th, 2011 Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) Program Opens to 200 New Participants

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:47:32 +0000

January 15th, 2011

CHP Registration Opens For Spring 2011 SessionOn Saturday January 15th, 2011 the Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP) designation program will open for registration to a limited group of just 200 additional participants.

The CHP designation is the industry standard #1 most popular hedge fund training and certification program that is provided for and by hedge fund professionals. The CHP program is provided by the 40,000 member Hedge Fund Group (HFG), the largest and most well known networking association in the hedge fund industry.

Since the CHP program is provided 100% online you can complete it along with the examination from anywhere in the world as long as you have a secure and consistent internet connection.

Here are three pages of our site to help you learn more about the program:

1) Our Job Placement Services for CHP Participants: http://hedgefundcertification.com/Hedge-Fund-Jobs.html

2) Our Benefits Page: http://hedgefundcertification.com/Benefits.html

3) Our 220+ Participant Quotes Page: http://hedgefundcertification.com/Quotes.html

If you have any questions at all about registration, tuition, or how the program works please see our very detailed website at ttp://HedgeFundCertification.com, or you may reach us at (212) 729-5067 or by email at team@hedgefundcertification.com.

- Richard

Richard Wilson
(212) 729-5067
Hedge Fund Group (HFG)
http://HedgeFundCertification.com

“The CHP designation is a great program to educate new employees who and join our hedge fund down the road.”

- Tom Jordan, President of TCJ Capital

“The CHP curriculum is a great place for people within or entering the industry to gain a fundamental foundation on the history, structure, and concept of the Hedge Fund Industry with freedom of time allocation and limited cost.”

- Jeffrey Ziglar | Vice President of Hedge Fund Strategies at Goldman Sachs and Co.

“The course subjects allows you to develop an in-depth understanding of the portfolio analytics methods and measures which are constantly evolving. The organizers were able to accommodate to my unique request and prompt to resolve issues encountered.”

- Majieb Zain | Trader at Barclays Bank Plc

Private Equity List

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:12:59 +0000

Private Equity List

Private Equity Firms List in Excel Format

Part of our team runs the largest private equity networking association in the industry and they just finished updating Version 2.1 of our Private Equity Directory. This resource was created after our team received dozens of emails from industry professionals looking for lists of private equity firms, digital family office databases, and excel-based family office directories.

This Private Equity Directory is Excel-based and provides full contact details of private equity firms including the following information:

Contact names
Job titles
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Physical addresses
Website URLs.

If you are interested in learning more about this private equity list, getting a sample of our private equity directory or contacting the creators please see Private Equity Directory.com. You may also navigate this same site by following one of the links below:

This directory is updated twice a year and when you purchase a copy of it you will get free updates to it for a period of 12 months after your purchase.

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Fund of Funds Directory

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:52:46 +0000

Directory of Fund of Funds in Excel

Part of our team runs the largest hedge fund networking association in the industry and they have just finished updating a new version of our Fund of Funds Directory. This resource was created after our team received dozens of emails from industry professionals looking for lists of fund of funds, digital fund of fund databases, and excel-based hedge fund of fund directories.

This Fund of Funds Directory is Excel-based and provides full contact details of private equity firms including the following information:

Contact names
Job titles
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Physical addresses
Website URLs.

If you are interested in learning more about this resource, getting a sample of our fund of funds directory or contacting the creators please see Fund of Funds Directory.com. You may also navigate this same site by following one of the links below:

This directory of hedge fund of funds contact details is updated twice a year and when you purchase a copy of it you will get free updates to it for a period of 12 months after your purchase.

Related to this blog post: Fund of Funds Directory

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Private Equity Directory: Excel Based Directory of Private Equity Firms

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:11:36 +0000

Private Equity Directory

Directory List of Private Equity Firms

This Private Equity Directory is Excel-based and provides full contact details of private equity firms including the following information:

Contact names
Job titles
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Physical addresses
Website URLs.

If you are interested in learning more about this resource, getting a sample of our private equity directory or contacting the creators please see Private Equity Directory.com. You may also navigate this same site by following one of the links below:

This directory is updated twice a year and when you purchase a copy of it you will get free updates to it for a period of 12 months after your purchase.

Related to this blog post: Private Equity Directory

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Start A Hedge Fund

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:44:50 +0000

Start A Hedge Fund

Concise Guide on How to Start a Hedge Fund

I have advised and worked with over 400 hedge fund startups of all different strategies and geographical locations and we have identified capital raising strategies, best practices, and the most common mistakes made by emerging hedge fund managers.

We have captured our consulting advice and over 100 hedge fund startup lessons within our e-book, “Start A Hedge Fund Now.”

Within This Book You Will Receive:

An open transcript of an interview with an established hedge fund manager who provides advice on what he learned while launching his hedge fund
A detailed break-down of the types of service proivders and business parnters you will need to work with within your hedge fund business
Direct capital raising consulting advice on how to raise capital for a new hedge fund business
The Top 10 Common $10,000 mistakes often made every day by new hedge funds and our advice on how to avoid these mistakes
A guide to writing your hedge fund business plan
Strategies on how to upgrade the pedigree, credentials, and education of your team
17 direct lessons from successful fast growing hedge fund businesses that you can use within your new hedge fund

This E-Book PDF Also Provides You With:

Guides to understanding, interviewing, and selecting prime brokers, incubation programs, administrators, third party marketers, formation attorneys, and compliance consultants
Dense and Concise 35 pages of pure hedge fund startup advice that won’t take you all year to read and put to use
Email marketing best practices to employ while speaking to potential investors
Why many hedge fund marketing tactics waste time and money and a breakdown on what these top 10 capital raising mistakes are so you may avoid them in your business
Section-by-Section instructions and tips for creating your PowerPoint pitch book that is expected or required to raise capital from every type of investor

To purchase this e-book which represents around $3,000 worth of hedge fund startup consulting advice for $17 please visit StartAHedgeFundNow.com

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Robert Donnelly, Managing Partner of JDS Global Partners, LLC “Start a Hedge Fund Now is an incredible value, well worth the money, and the time. I have spent hours upon hours reading material on starting a hedge fund. This book took me less than an hour to read, and got 10 times the value compared to other sources. Richard Wilson truly knows about the challenges and mistakes that are made starting a hedge fund, and has provided an incredibly valuable guide to being successful.”

Anmol Chattha, Trader, “This book should be required reading for everyone from the start up hedge fund manager to the experienced hedge fund veteran. The information is presented in a very condensed and detailed manner with multiple insider perspectives on the industry.”

Douglas MacLean, Armor Compliance, “Great insight into various facets of the hedge fund industry. Provides helpful guidance to start-up managers about how to operate and not operate their hedge funds.

Ron Jacob, Managing Partner of JDS Global Partners, LLC “this is a must read for any entrepreneur looking to get started in the world of hedge funds. The information you provided was invaluable and something most people only learn through mistakes. Thanks for steering us in the right direction!”

Note: Above are quotes from professionals who have read our e-book over the past few months. Please note that the first six professionals listed were sent a free copy of the e-book to review but were not compensated in any way or rewarded for providing us with positive feedback. All testimonials may be verified or certified by any part by emailing us at team@hedgefundstartupkit.com.

To buy this e-book for $17 please visit http://StartAHedgeFundNow.com

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Copywriting for Capital Raising

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:43:19 +0000

Copywriting for Capital Raising

This short video below explains why copywriting is so important and why ignoring this area can kill your progress towards raising more capital for your hedge fund. Below is a definition of copywriting for those of you new to the subject, and if you are reading this via rss or email you will need to click here to view the embedded video on our website.

Definition of Copywriting: The strategic use of the right words within sales letters, websites and presentations to influence others to take action.

Top 10 Fund Marketing Mistakes

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:02:41 +0000

Top 10 Fund Marketing Mistakes

Our team provides over 1,600 funds a year with capital raising advice, resources and products. Our team has also helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars in capital as well. Through these two sources of experience we see many of the same fund marketing mistakes made over and over again.

If you can avoid these mistakes you will be more effective than 80% of your competitors in the marketplace.

Top 10 Fund Marketing Mistakes:

Mistake #1: You have a 3 month capital raising goal. This is un-realistic and the wrong mindset to go out of the gates with. You need to plan, build relationships, educate potential clients, and design high quality marketing strategies and materials for the long term. It takes time to raise lots of capital and usually the more valuable the investor, the longer the sales cycle. Don’t try to cram everything into a 1-3 month capital raise.

Mistake #2: Counting on simply building a track record and then hoping to outsource all marketing to a great third party marketing firm down the road. This puts all of your eggs into the third party marketing basket. Third party marketers have hundreds of potential clients approach them each year, it is risky to assume one will not only take you on as a client but actually raise a sustainable level of capital for you.

Mistake #3: Spending $8,000 on graphic design and website design but $0 on hiring someone who is an expert at sales letter construction, writing copy, and creating headlines and taglines for your positioning in the marketplace that will be effective. Many times I see fund managers that want to look very professional but there is no meat in what they are saying, or hook to draw in the reader.

Mistake #4: Not dedicating resources to capital raising is the most obvious mistake that I see in the industry. Many fund managers will act as the CIO, make 2-3 phone calls a week or sometimes per month and then wonder why they have not raised more capital. Performance does NOT market itself, pedigree does NOT swing all doors wide open. You need to have dedicated resources, an internal marketing resource working at least 20 hours/week, investor databases so you can spend your time calling on real prospects instead of always having to qualify them, and have a growing internal CRM or IRM system in place to track this investment in investor relationships.

Mistake #5: Speaking at conferences full of your closest competitors instead of your highest value potential investors.

Mistake #6: Under-estimating the value of a first name basis relationship with your top investor prospects. Some professionals, especially those with technical backgrounds think that marketing is a numbers game. Yes, you have to sometimes reach out to many to develop relationships with few but relationships is at the core of everything that gets done. Like Gitomer says, “all things equal people like to do business with friends, all things being unequal people still like to do business with friends.”

Mistake #7: Another capital raising mistake I see in the fund management space is a lack of capital raising training or fund marketing instruction. You do not have to pay to have your marketing staff trained but at the very least you should document your own best practices, processes, investor pipeline development plans so they can be easily communicated to team members, board members and then constantly improved each quarter.

Mistake #8: Missing the boat on authority positioning, educational forms of marketing, and improving their own pedigree standing within the industry.

Mistake #9: Writing off PR: Most managers shy away from or completely ignore public relations as an avenue for helping create interest and positioning for experts on their team. Many funds have now successfully employed the media to spread messages about their fund.

Mistake #10: A mistake that I see 90%+ funds doing today is using a boring, run of the milll Unique Selling Proposition (USP), or worse yet, not having one at all.

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Additional Industry Websites

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:50:21 +0000

Fund Administration Cow Paths

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:46:08 +0000

I recently heard Eben Pagan speak in LA at a marketing conference on how business is typically conducted. I was reminded of that talk while I was in Boston last week for our Hedge Fund Premium networking event (which was great).

The streets in Boston were actually old cow paths that the city decided to just pave over to create the roads of the city. The result, is a very complicated maze of one way streets which really only make sense to the most veteran cab drivers. This is not the cows fault they simply walked typically in the direction of least resistance. The point here is that nobody stepped back and looked at where the cows had wandered and asked if there was a better way to get the project done…they simply followed where cows had walked in the past.

Pagan’s point in telling this story was that in every business, every form of marketing and even within the hedge fund business there are cow paths everywhere. Are you and your business wandering around on cow paths of what others have done in the past, or are you building a super highway straight towards your goal?

Areas to examine for fund administrators and fund managers could including hiring, capital raising, employee management, performance reporting, transparency, governance, and investor relations. Our team now often steps back and looks at competitors, other industries, and steps to the work we are trying to complete to see if there is a more direct or efficient way of completing it. Hope this story helps.
Tags: hedge fund cow paths, hedge fund processes, business processes of hedge fund managers, hedge fund managers and how they operate their small businesses

Prime Brokerage Services

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:41:29 +0000

TradeStation Prime Services: Advanced technology and a multi-custodian offering gives TradeStation the ability to serve clients as both start-ups and as larger, well established funds. Launching and running a fund is challenging and TradeStation offers the framework of practical knowledge that evolves with your business. TradeStation Prime Services: technology,vision and service. Learn more at http://TradeStationPrime.com

Contact:

Lance Baraker, Senior Managing Director at LBaraker@tradestationprime.com or by calling (917) 273-4185 (New York Office)

William Katts, Senior Managing Director at WKatts@tradestationprime.com or by calling (203) 685-20145 (New York Office)