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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