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The Richard Wilson Hedge fund Blog is a combination of a hedge fund blog and sales blog and it was created to share the daily lessons I am learning while moving through my investment marketing and sales career at a third party marketing firm, earning a gr
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"Jesus Would Not Invest in Hedge Funds"
Jesus and Hedge Fund Managers Below is the ever-controversial Michael Moore, he was on Larry King Live recently talking about the evils of capitalism and hedge funds. Related to "Jesus Would Not Invest in Hedge Funds"Family Office Database in Exc...
Hedge Fund Regulation - FSA & Europe
Hedge Fund Regulation Below is an excerpt about how the FSA is standing up for hedge funds in Europe, as Fintag stated, "hedge funds did not cause this crisis, banks did and now they are stronger than ever before." CITY regulator the Financial Serv...
Hedge Fund Networking Event Invitation
Hedge Fund Networking Event Invitation If you one our daily email subscribers to this blog and are reading this please click here to watch the embedded video within this blog post. 1. Learn more about Hedge Fund Premium & our networking...
AQR Clifford Asness Interview | Video
AQR Clifford Asness Interview See additional resources within our Video Library Related to AQR Clifford Asness Interview | VideoHedge Fund Career Advice Hedge Fund Startup Tips and Tricks What is a Family Office? Third Party Marketing Trends &...
Jim Chanos from Kynikos Associates Interview | Video
Kynikos Associates | Interview See additional resources within our Video Library Related to: Kynikos Associates | James Chanos | Hedge Fund NotesThe Demise of Hedge Funds Hedge Funds Gains to Date in 2009 Andrew Lo and The Economy Thinning of the ...
IOSCO Hedge Fund Standards Report
IOSCO Hedge Fund Standards The International Organization of Securities Commissions just released a new report providing additional hedge fund standards related to both liquidity risk and due diligence processes. Here is a quote which FinAltern...
Chinese Foreign Exchange Reserves - $2 Trillion
Chinese Foreign Exchange Reserves Just saw this interesting article on the level of foreign exchange reserves China now has in hand, interesting... "In a world of systemic instability, reserves mean power. Reserves mean you can defend your currency,...
Book Bonuses | What Should We Include?
Book Bonuses We are writing the rest of our hedge fund training book over the next two months, this book will cover hedge fund case studies, institutionalizing your hedge fund, raising capital, starting a hedge fund, best practices of large hedge fun...
Brazilian CTA Fund & Hedge Fund Networking Event
Brazilian Fund Managers Event Our team is putting together a few networking events in Sao Paulo, Brazil and probably Rio as well in late 2009 and early 2010. If you are a CTA fund manager, hedge fund manager or trader which is planning to launc...
Lehman Brothers Assets Frozen | Update
Frozen Assets Below is a quick update on the Lehman Brothers frozen assets situation: Despite a legal setback, the administrators of Lehman Brothers’ European arm still hopes to expedite the return of billions in frozen prime brokerage assets to t...
SEC Inspection Notes from Madoff
SEC Inspection Notes Below is a short article on how Madoff avoided detection for so long: A newly-released transcript of a phone call between Bernard Madoff and a feeder hedge fund offers new details of how the arch-fraudster escaped detection for ...
Capital Raising Methods & Focus
Capital Raising Methods and Focus Below is a paragraph excerpt from a book I am writing on hedge funds, which will be published through Wiley in 2010. It shares some advice on targeting different types of investors. While other consultant...
Hedge Fund Sales Careers | Investor Access
Hedge Fund Sales CareersBelow is a short guest post by Mark Goormastic of Goormastic Executive Search. This is straight advice from someone who works daily with placing hedge fund professionals within the industry. The only thing I would personally...
Erin Callan Swiss Investment Bank
Erin CallanInteresting to see that Erin Callan is now leading the hedge fund business division for a bank in New York. In the past she has been referred to as the most powerful woman on Wall Street.We know one hedge fund client that's not likely goi...
Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP)
Certified Hedge Fund Professional (CHP)In 2007 the Hedge Fund Group started developing a professional training and certification program for professionals who work with hedge funds. This project began after realizing that all other programs were des...
Longer Hedge Fund Lock-Up Periods
Hedge Fund Lock-Up PeriodsInteresting story came out in Reuters today about how Cerberus Capital Management is now putting three year lock up periods on all new funds. While investors have been demanding more flexibility and transparency I believe h...
Developing a Hedge Fund USP (Unique Selling Proposition)
Developing a Hedge Fund USPBelow is a short video explanation of how a hedge fund can and should create a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) so they are not lost in the noise of the industry. This video was created after our team saw that most hedge f...
Hedge Funds Deliver the Goods
Hedge Funds Deliver the GoodsHere is a video interview with Rick Steele, CEO of TechInvest. Mr. Steele runs the Intercept Capital Fund a long/short market neutral hedge fund. Within this video Mr. Steele comments on hedge funds and fund of hedge fu...
Recorded Phone Call, Workbook & Video
Recorded Call, Workbook & VideoToday we are recording a phone call for Hedge Fund Premium with a leading hedge fund auditor in Chicago, we will be discussing hedge fund industry auditing requirements, trends, costs, and the overall process of hav...
Top 5 Hedge Fund Website Rankings
Top 5 Hedge Fund Website RankingsBased on the Alexa Traffic Ranking Tool here are the top 5 Hedge Fund Website Rankings:HedgeFundBlogger.com, Alexa: 122,000HedgeCo.net, Alexa: 140,000Albourne Village: 240,000HedgeWorld: 455,000HedgeFund.net: 539,000...
Australian Hedge Funds Perform Well
Australian Hedge FundsBelow is a short video on hedge fund performance in Australia, this is being added to our geographical guide to hedge funds in Australia. This video talks about which strategies in Australia have been doing well and it also hel...
Hedge Fund Capital Raising & Career Tools
Fund Capital Raising & Career ToolsWhile we expect most professionals will join HedgeFundPremium.com for the free-to-attend networking events that come with membership, there are 14 distinct tools made available to all members. Right now our tea...
Hedge Fund Networking Events Fall 2009
Hedge Fund Networking EventsWe have scheduled 4 networking events for this fall and winter, these are events being put on by the Hedge Fund Group, and they are open to everyone who is a member of Hedge Fund Premium which opens for registration on Aug...
Hedge Funds 101 Video
Hedge Funds 101 VideoBelow is a video on hedge funds. While parts of the video are good, generalizations are made about the industry which I do not believe are true. All hedge fund managers do not "hedge" and many are not "adventurous." Hope this i...
Bad News
Bad NewsWe have some bad news, as HedgeFundBlogger.com has expanded over the past few years our tools have grown larger, deeper and more time-consuming to maintain. At the same time our firm has brought on a few additional staff members to help us k...
Futures and Commodities Market | Definition & Explanation
Futures and Commodities Market(First published on Commodities & Futures Guide.com) The futures and commodities markets are two vital parts of the investment world but represent two very different things altogether. Commodities markets are market...
Hedge Fund Training & Certification Program
Hedge Fund Training & Certification ProgramToday on July 15th, 2009 at 2PM EST the CHA Designation opens for registration to an additional 200 professionals for the Fall 2009 Session.Below are a number of testimonials direct from current and past...
Sungard: Astec Analytics | Short Side Service
Below please find information on a short selling tool by Sungard, a supporter of HedgeFundBlogger.com.SunGard’s “Short Side”, service allows subscribers to gauge daily short sentiment and get a better handle on the current retail rates in the...
Investor Due Diligence & Emerging Managers?
Investor Due Diligence & Emerging Managers?My background is in marketing and I know one of the big challenges of raising capital for both emerging and medium sized hedge funds is that everyone wants their 3, 15 or 125 checkboxes to be complete. ...
Emerging Hedge Fund Investors & Capital Raising
Emerging Hedge Fund InvestorsBelow is a video about how many emerging manager hedge funds outperform the rest of the industry. The theory is that these smaller funds are more nimble, they can invest in smaller cap stocks, and they have a lot at stak...
