Operational infrastructure for funds: NAV production, administration workflows, custody and banking, trade operations and the controls that determine whether a fund passes operational due diligence.
Articles in this category
- In-Kind Redemptions and In-Specie Transfers: When a Hedge Fund Pays Out in Securities Rather Than Cash
- Anti-Dilution Levies and Swing Pricing in Hedge Funds: Who Pays the Cost of Investor Flows
- Hedged Share Classes in Hedge Funds: Currency Hedging Mechanics, Cost and Who Bears the Basis
- The NAV Error Policy Hedge Fund Boards Should Approve: Thresholds, Compensation and Restatements
- Hedge Fund Best Execution Policy: The Duty, the Evidence and What ODD Teams Test
- The Hedge Fund Business Continuity Plan: What Allocators Test at Sub-US$100m
- Can a DeFi Fund Be Audited? The Audit Evidence Test
- How a Fund Holds Collateral Across Five to Eight Trading Venues
- How Venue Sub-Accounts Express Segregated Portfolio Boundaries
- Collateral Held Away From the Venue: How It Is Priced at NAV
- Can a Crypto Fund Hold Its Own Private Keys?
- Which Administrators Decline a Sub-$25m Crypto Fund, and Why
- What Crypto Fund Custody Evidence Will an Auditor Actually Accept?
- How the Hedge Fund Subscription Process Actually Works
- Opening a Bank Account for a Cayman Fund
- The Hedge Fund Technology Stack at Launch: Order Management, Portfolio Management, Risk and Reporting
- Hedge Fund Liquidity Stress Testing: The Frameworks Regulators and Allocators Expect
- Hedge Fund Wind Down Closure: The Orderly Playbook
- GIPS Compliance for Hedge Fund Managers: When It Is Worth It and How to Get There
- Hedge Fund Investor Reporting Requirements: What the Monthly and Quarterly Pack Must Contain
- Hedge Fund Secondaries and the LP Transfer: How Interests in Cayman Funds Change Hands
- Hedge Fund Operational Infrastructure by AUM: What Allocators Expect at US$50m, US$250m and US$1bn
- Prime Broker Counterparty Risk: Rehypothecation, Asset Segregation and the Multi-Prime Decision
- D&O and Fund Insurance: What Cover a Hedge Fund and Its Directors Actually Need
- Treasury and Counterparty Management for Hedge Funds: Cash, Margin and Broker Diversification
- What to Outsource and What to Own: Middle Office, Shadow NAV and the Lean Manager Operating Model
- Outsourced Trading for Emerging Managers: Cost, Execution Quality and the ODD View
- Digital Asset Fund Operations: The Institutional Operating Layer
- How to Choose a Digital Asset Fund Administrator
- The Crypto Fund Valuation Policy: Pricing Hierarchies, Illiquid Tokens and Locked Positions
- Exchange Onboarding for Funds: KYB, Sub-Accounts and API Governance
- The Digital Asset Fund Launch Checklist: Week by Week from Mandate to First Trade
- Crypto Custody Due Diligence: How Fund Managers Should Select a Custodian in 2026
- Who Owns the Learning? AI, Proprietary Data and the Fund Platform Moat
- DeFi Fund Accounting: Staking, Yield Farming and Liquidity Pool Treatment
- The Complete Guide to Side Pockets for Investors and Managers
- When Can a Hedge Fund Suspend Redemptions?
- Choosing Your First Prime Broker: What Emerging Managers Need to Know
- Side Pockets and Performance Fees: What Happens When Assets Become Illiquid?
- One Fund, Multiple Fee Models: Using Share Classes to Meet Different Investor Needs
- Equalisation, Series Accounting and Performance Fee Fairness
- The Hidden Risks of Fund of Funds Investing: Liquidity, Gates and Side Pockets Explained
- Fund Valuation Policy: Pricing Sources and Controls
- Gates, Side Pockets and Suspensions: Liquidity Tools Explained
- Lock-Ups, Notice Periods and Redemption Terms
- High-Water Marks and Hurdle Rates Explained
- Performance Fees and High-Water Marks
- The Offering Memorandum: What Goes In and Why
- Trust, Not Sales: A Practical Investor Relations Playbook for New Hedge Fund Managers
- E-Subscriptions: Removing Cross-Border Fund Friction
- AI Hedge Funds: Research, Risk and Fund Infrastructure
- Platform Fund, Manager-Owned Strategy: How Managers Retain Brand, IP and Track Record
- Prime Brokerage for Emerging Hedge Funds: What Actually Matters
- Hedge Fund Drawdowns: How Managers Should Explain Losses to Investors
- Hedge Fund Expense Ratios: What Is Reasonable at US$10m, US$50m, US$100m and US$250m AUM
- When Should a Hedge Fund Move from Monthly to Weekly or Daily NAV?
- The Hidden Cost of Poor Trade Operations in Hedge Funds
- Gross Exposure vs Net Exposure in Hedge Funds
- Operational Alpha: Why Infrastructure Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage
- Valuation, NAV Production and Investor Reporting: What Institutions Expect from a Cayman Hedge Fund
- AML, KYC, and Investor Onboarding in Cayman Funds: What You Need to Know
- The Evolution of Hedge Fund Terms Since 2020
- Management Fees, Performance Fees, and Hurdles: What Actually Works Today
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