HFBOA News

Wall Street Warfighters hosting a Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament

by HFBOA 30. July 2010 19:59
As many of you know, Wall Street Warfighters < http://www.wallstreetwarfighters.org/ > is an organization focused on benefiting Service Disabled Veterans. Its mission is to identify, develop and place disabled veterans in long-term professions in the financial services industry following their... [More]

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charitable giving

Separately Managed Accounts: Part II

by HFBOA 28. July 2010 17:59
Once expectations have been set and a good TMA is in place the next step is to begin working with a (hopefully your) prime broker to get the account up and running. In this Part II of the blog we will talk about the nuts and bolts of opening an account including executing on the TMA to working wit... [More]

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Industry Trends

Separately Managed Accounts: Can you deal with them? do you want to? How can you? Part I of II

by HFBOA 14. July 2010 00:56
Post-Madoff and post-Lehman one of the more significant predictions in the hedge fund space was the potential for a huge increase in the number of separately managed accounts (SMAs). Increased transparency and the demands for liquidity after the meltdown the industry experienced in the recent past... [More]

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Industry Trends | Operations

A closer look: Agreements made when the hedge fund is the "vendor"

by HFBOA 1. July 2010 23:45
In my last blog post I talked about boiler plate agreements used by vendors that service the hedge fund industry. Today, let’s look at agreements used when the hedge fund or the hedge fund manager is the "vendor." The most common agreement in this category is probably the subscription agreem... [More]