Introducing Hedge Funds

2021 ◽  
pp. xviii-32
Author(s):  
Douglas Cumming ◽  
Sofia Johan ◽  
Geoffrey Wood
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Hedge Funds ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Hedge Fund ◽  
Limited Partnership ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Private Equity Funds ◽  
Performance Activism

This introduction reviews recent research on hedge funds. The Handbook of Hedge Funds comprises 21 chapters from authors around the world. The chapters describe hedge fund industry governance, flows, limited partnership contracts, compensation, fund strategies, performance, activism, effects on investee firms, misconduct, misreporting, fraud, and financial regulation. Further, the chapters highlight differences with other types of intermediaries, such as private equity funds and mutual funds. The chapters feature both US and international analyses. This introductory chapter summarizes papers that appear in the handbook, provide a theoretical framework for research on hedge funds, and highlight research trends on topic.

scholarly journals The Rise of Institutional Investors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Fichtner
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Hedge Funds ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Private Equity Funds ◽  
Important Position ◽  
State Street ◽  
Asset Managers

During the last decades, institutional investors gained an ever more important position as managers of assets and owners of corporations. By demanding (short-term) shareholder value, some of them have driven the financialization of corporations and of the financial sector itself. This chapter first characterizes the specific roles that private equity funds, hedge funds, and mutual funds have played in this development. It then moves on to focus on one group of institutional investors that is rapidly becoming a pivotal factor for corporate control in many countries – the “Big Three” large passive asset managers BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.

8 Investor Protection Concerns in Private Investment Funds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spangler Timothy
Keyword(s):  
Hedge Funds ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Hedge Fund ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Private Equity Funds

This chapter examines the governance challenge in private investment funds arising from investor protection failures. It begins with a discussion of the Madoff affair, which brought to the fore alleged failures in reporting, oversight and governance mechanisms regarding private investment funds, whether hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate opportunities funds or other more esoteric investment pools. It then considers some issues which the Madoff debacle drew attention to, including the presence of multiple fund vehicles in the same structure or in interconnected structures such as parallel funds, master-feeder, and fund of funds. It also analyses the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) concerns about hedge fund fraud and conflicts of interest that may arise in the business models of any of the participants in the private equity market. Finally, it describes ongoing diligence and oversight regarding private investment funds and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) concerns over due diligence involving private funds.

SEC asset management unit’s enforcement priorities for 2015 – conflicts of interest

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Perrie Michael Weiner ◽  
Patrick Hunnius ◽  
Sean R. Crain
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Hedge Funds ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Enforcement Action ◽  
Investment Companies ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Private Equity Funds

Purpose – To address “Conflicts, Conflicts Everywhere,” a speech at the recent IA Watch 17th Annual Compliance Conference by Julie M. Riewe, co-chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit (AMU). Design/methodology/approach – Provide information on the AMU’s creation, the AMU’s 2015 priorities for each of the primary investment vehicles it polices –registered investment companies; private funds (both hedge funds and private equity funds); and other client accounts, such as separately managed accounts/retail accounts – and the AMU’s central concern across all of the investment vehicles it polices: conflicts of interest. Findings – Conflicts of interest will be receiving much attention from the Commission in the coming months. In order to help avoid an SEC inquiry or, worse yet, an enforcement action, corporations and individuals should seek counsel. Originality/value – Practical explanation and guidance from experienced securities and financial services lawyers.

scholarly journals International financial markets and development

2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wahl
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Hedge Funds ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Maximum Profit ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Private Equity Funds ◽  
Current Financial Crisis ◽  
New Instruments

The current financial crisis has not come about by chance. It is the result of a system that has emerged over the last 30 years and which Keynes may well have called the ‘casino economy’. The dominance of finance over real economy characterises the financial crisis, while finance itself is dominated by the all-encompassing target of maximum profit at all times. Other aims of economic activity such as job creation, social welfare and development have fallen by the wayside. In response, new actors are surfacing, e.g. the institutional investor (hedge funds, private equity funds, etc.), while new instruments are leading to highly leveraged and destabilising derivatives. The casino system has been promoted by governments and intergovernmental institutions to liberalise and deregulate financial markets. Although developing countries have not participated in the casino system, they have been suffering most from the spill-over into the real economy. The main lesson learnt is that the casino has to be closed.

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