Aug

15

How to Start a Hedge Fund: Part 4

August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is the final installment in a four part Q&A on “How to Start a Hedge Fund” with Jeffrey F. Kuchta, CFA, Managing Member of Hedge Fund Launch LLC
HFL:Should I just hire an internal marketing staff?
If you have a […]

Aug

14

Tips for Screening Hedge Fund Marketers: #5

August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is the last tip in our five part series on effectively evaluating hedge fund marketers. 
 What other business interests are they engaged in?
Ask for a description of the range of business activities in which the firm, and all affiliates, subsidiaries, parent companies are involved. The answers could be very telling and alert you to possible conflicts […]

Aug

14

And That’s The Week That Was

August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Attached/linked please find And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended August 10, 2007.  The past week can be summed up in three simple words:  volatility, volatility, volatility.  These days, any session with less than a 100 point movement (on the Dow) in one direction or the other […]

Aug

12

Gnomedex, Blogging Hedge Funds … the Future??

August 12, 2007 | 2 Comments

My mind is still reeling! On the surface it might seem kind of strange that a hedge fund guy attended one of the largest, most well known blogger conferences in the world this weekend: Gnomedex which is run by Chris Pirillo and his lovely wife Ponzi.  The reason a hedge fund guy would attend a […]

Aug

10

Jimmy Cayne Needs a Bucket

August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

When Jim Cayne isn’t on the golf course, we think he’s dining at some fancy restaurant like Le Cirque or smoking those expensive stogies in his office.   As Reuters reports below, he’s getting ready to jet off to communist China to secure some more long term loans — but Bear has “ample liquidity” so their […]

Aug

9

How to Start a Hedge Fund: Part 3

August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is the third installment in a four part Q&A on “How to Start a Hedge Fund” with Jeffrey F. Kuchta, CFA, Managing Member of Hedge Fund Launch LLC
HFL: Why is it important to have an independent auditor?
Kuchta: For internal operating reasons it is important to have at least an annual audit in order to […]

Aug

8

Hedge Funds For Dummies and a Cleaning of the House

August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments

Reuters reported that hedge funds have suffered one of their worst weeks of performance in years.  Hmmm. Now, as you can imagine, at HFL, we have seen our fair share of hedge fund start ups over the years — and believe me when I tell you we could tell you some great stories.  We’ve been contacted […]

Aug

8

Fiddling while The Bear Burns

August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment

I can’t take it anymore!  I had every intention of not commenting about the Bear Stearns impolosion caused by their hedge funds, but James Cayne is a Wall Street Nero fiddling while his firm (Rome) burns to the ground!  And rather than be a man and take responsibility for this debacle, he offers up one of […]

Aug

6

Questions for Third Party Marketers: #4

August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is the fourth part of our series of five questions every hedge fund manager should ask third party marketers/sales agents.
Registrations - does the sales agent have any? Find out what registrations the firm and its officers may hold. Are any of the officers a registered investment advisor, commodity trading advisor, is the firm a broker-dealer, etc? […]

Aug

4

And That’s The Week That Was

August 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

And That’s The Week That Was…the Brounes & Associates market/economic commentary for the week ended August 3, 2007.  A week highlighted by a huge toy recall, some more devastating news on the subprime front, and a weaker than expected labor number can’t possibly be positive for the markets.  Then again, coming off the worst week […]

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