February 23, 2010
Can you ask an administrator what is in a portfolio?
Each year, Castle Hall completes operational due diligence on several hundred hedge funds. As part of that process, we speak with each administrator to both understand and evaluate the quality of that admin's procedures, and also to corroborate information provided...
Posted at 07:00 PM in Administrators
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
October 02, 2009
Rethinking Fund Administration 1.5
In one of our last posts, we began a series of comments discussing the current state of the hedge fund administration industry, with a particular focus on valuation. We promised that our next post would address some solutions to the...
Posted at 07:00 PM in Administrators
September 01, 2009
Rethinking Fund Administration: 1
Our comments on Risk Without Reward have frequently touched on the role, responsibilities, advantages and disadvantages of third party fund administration. As a starting point, all of Castle Hall's partners have experience in the offshore hedge fund community, the traditional...
Posted at 07:00 PM in Administrators
