February 04, 2010
Scissors and Glue...Cut and Paste
In recent posts, we have touched on the "neverending staircase" where responsibility for the valuation process is passed in a perpetual and unresolved circle between fund, administrator, manager and directors. We have also reviewed the recent AIMA guidance on fund...
Posted at 07:00 PM
January 23, 2010
A survey of institutionalization
SEI, the hedge fund and private equity administrator, has recently published their annual investor survey, entitled "The new era of the investor: new rules of institutional hedge fund investing" (available here.) In one of our recent posts, we touched on...
Posted at 07:00 PM
January 08, 2010
The neverending staircase
You may have seen various versions of the optical illusion of the neverending staircase - a stairway under which, no matter how far you walk, you don't get any higher. One of the most famous versions is the drawing by...
Posted at 07:00 PM
December 19, 2009
At least not all administrator's think the same...
Plenty of our recent posts have focused on the declining degree of oversight and responsibility accepted by many of today's hedge fund administrators. In light of this trend, we were very interested to see a recent paper published by a...
Posted at 07:00 PM in Administrators
