Fund Governance

Fund governance for institutional capital: board composition, independent directors, conflicts of interest, oversight of on-chain risk and the governance failures every manager should study.

Articles in this category

• The Personal Account Dealing Policy Hedge Fund Managers Need Before the First Allocation
• Soft Dollars, Commission Sharing and Research Payments: What a Cayman Hedge Fund Can Pay For
• Hedge Fund Trade Error Policy: Who Bears the Loss and What Allocators Expect to See
• How Long the First Institutional Allocation Actually Takes
• Making a Crypto Fund Track Record Fundable
• Crypto Fund Insurance: What Crime, Specie and Directors Cover Respond To
• How to Verify a Cayman Fund: The CIMA Register, the Audit and the Directors
• The July leverage event: what a USD 15 billion loss tells hedge fund boards about concentration risk
• Leverage, Concentration and Collapse: Rebuilding the Hedge Fund Risk Management Framework
• Hedge Fund Succession Planning: Equity, Investor Consent and Regulatory Steps
• The Hedge Fund Leverage Oversight Board Pack: Repo, Total Return Swaps, Margin and What Directors Should Monitor
• ESG Side Letter Hedge Fund Exclusions: Operational and Governance Implications
• The ODD Readiness Checklist for Digital Asset Funds
• Operational Due Diligence on Digital Asset Funds: What Allocator ODD Teams Actually Test
• The Manager's Own Money: Skin in the Game, Co-Investment Disclosure and Redemption Priority
• Beyond the Independent Director: Advisory Boards, LPACs and Investor Governance in Hedge Funds
• Cross Trades and Principal Transactions: Where Managers Get Into Trouble
• Valuing Hard-to-Value Assets: Level 3 Positions, Valuation Committees and Auditor Expectations
• Running a Fund and SMAs Side by Side: Trade Allocation, Conflicts and Pari Passu Obligations
• Expense Allocation Policies: What the Fund Can Pay For and What the Manager Must Absorb
• Answering the AIMA DDQ: A Manager's Guide to the Current Edition
• Fund Governance and ODD Readiness: The Institutional Standard
• The 2026 Digital Asset Fund DDQ: What Allocators Ask and How to Be Ready
• Cybersecurity and Governance for Digital Asset Funds: Lessons from CIMA's VASP Thematic Review
• Wallet Governance for Digital Asset Funds: Designing a Transaction Policy Allocators Will Trust
• The Independent Director in Digital Asset Funds: Oversight When Assets Move in Seconds
• Trading Discretion Is Not Account Control: Why Exchange Account Governance Defines Institutional Digital Asset Funds
• Lessons from the Largest Hedge Fund Governance Failures
• Key Person Risk: The Single Biggest Operational Risk Facing Emerging Managers
• What an Institutional Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ) Really Tells Investors
• Building and Presenting an Institutional Track Record
• Sharpe, Sortino and Risk-Adjusted Return Metrics
• The Role of the Fund Board in Hedge Fund Risk Oversight
• Governance as a Capital-Raising Asset
• Operational Breakdowns That Kill Funds (Before Investors Notice)
• Why Hedge Funds Shut Down: A Structural Analysis
• How LLMs Will Reshape Fund Operations and Compliance
• AI in Fund Governance: From Board Packs to Real-Time Oversight
• Appointing a Corporate Governance Committee for Larger Hedge Funds
• Managing Counterparty Risk for Digital Asset Funds
• Audit Timing and First-Year Filings: What Cayman Hedge Fund Managers Need to Know
• CIMA Corporate Governance Rules: What Fund Managers Must Actually Do
• The Role of Independent Directors in Cayman Hedge Funds
• What a Good Crypto Fund Board Actually Does
• The Operational Reality of Running Daily NAV in Digital Assets
• The Fund Failure Playbook: What Happens When Things Go Wrong
• The Drift Protocol Hack and the Infrastructure That Would Have Stopped It: What State-Level DeFi Attacks Mean for Institutional Fund Governance
• Independent Governance Over On-Chain Risk: What Institutional Investors Cannot Afford to Overlook
• The Hidden Conflicts of Interest Reshaping Digital Asset Risk

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