Alternative investment operations : hedge funds, private equity, and fund of funds / Jason Scharfman.

Alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity, and fund of funds continue to be of strong interest among the investment community. As these investment strategies have become increasingly complex, fund managers have continued to devote more time and resources towards developing best pra...

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Main Author: Scharfman, Jason A., 1978- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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505 0 |a Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction to Alternative Investment Operations -- Introduction -- Classifying Fund Manager Activities -- Comparing Investment and Operational Functions -- Operations Role in Facilitating Investment Procedures -- Dependency of the Investment Function on the Operational Functions -- What Is Unique About Alternative Investments Operations? -- Different Alternative Investment Strategies Merit Specific Operational Practices -- Operational Risk Management: Trading Operations and Compliance Example -- Chapter Summary 
505 8 |a 2: Trade Operations: Execution, Settlement and Reconciliation -- Introduction to Trade Operations -- What Is Being Traded -- Trade Idea Generation -- Trading Strategy Compared to Trade Idea Generation -- Trade Implementation -- Order Entry -- Pre-Trade Blotters -- Electronic Versus Physical Pre-Trade Blotters -- Pre-Trade Compliance Checks -- Trade Execution -- Trade Give-Ups -- Trade Confirmation -- Trade Clearing -- Trade Settlement -- Trade Reconciliation -- Trade Allocation -- Human and Computer Trading -- Chapter Summary -- 3: Cash Management, Oversight and Movement 
505 8 |a Introduction to Cash Usage in Alternative Investments -- Four Primary Categories of Cash -- Cash Storage Locations -- Master-Feeder Structure -- Cash Accounts for Different Funds -- Cash for Expenses -- Expense Policies -- Cash Movement for Expenses -- Cash To Facilitate Trading -- Cash Sweeping Frequency -- Cash To and From Investors -- Unencumbered Cash -- Cash Controls -- Cash Initiators and Approvers -- Single Initiator Approver Model -- Cash Threshold Model -- Different Initiator Approver With No Threshold Model -- Chapter Summary -- 4: Compliance Operations and Governance Considerations 
505 8 |a Introduction to Compliance Operations and Governance Considerations -- Mandatory Compliance -- Sources of Mandatory Compliance Rules -- Voluntary Compliance -- Regulatory Guidance -- Self-Imposed Obligations -- Operational Compliance -- Alternative Investment Governance Considerations -- Chief Compliance Officer Models -- Chief Compliance Officer Duties -- Common Compliance Documents -- Common Compliance Policies -- Chapter Summary -- 5: The Role of Service Providers in Alternative Investment Operations -- Introduction to Alternative Investment Service Providers -- Fund Administrators 
505 8 |a Conflict of Interest Considerations -- Role in Valuation -- Valuation Consultants -- Compliance Consultant -- Personal Trading Program Oversight -- Electronic Communication Monitoring Oversight -- Mock Audits -- Other Services -- Legal Counsel -- Accountants and Auditors -- Custodian -- Other Service Providers -- Chapter Summary -- 6: Information Technology Operations -- Introduction to the Role of Technology in Operations -- Information Security Policy -- Information Technology Consultants -- Data Rooms -- Cybersecurity -- Penetration Testing -- Software Patches -- Vendor Cybersecurity Analysis 
505 0 |a Introduction to alternative investment operations -- Trade operations: execution, settlement and reconciliation -- Cash management, oversight and movement -- Compliance operations and governance considerations -- The role of service providers in alternative investment operations -- Information technology operations -- Additional operational functions and tasks -- Private equity operations -- Fund of funds operations -- Documenting and analyzing fund operations -- Ongoing operations management, training, surveillance and testing -- Analysis of fund operations and future trends. 
520 |a Alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity, and fund of funds continue to be of strong interest among the investment community. As these investment strategies have become increasingly complex, fund managers have continued to devote more time and resources towards developing best practice operations to support the actual trade processing, fund accounting, and back-office mechanics that allow these strategies to function. Representative of this operational growth, estimates have indicated that fund managers have seen increased operating budgets of 30% or more in recent years. In todays highly regulated environment, alternative investment managers have also increasingly had to integrate rigorous compliance and cybersecurity oversight into fund operations. Additionally, with recent advances in artificial intelligence and big data analysis, fund managers are devoting larger portions of their information technology budgets towards realizing technology-based operational efficiencies. Alternative investment fund service providers have also substantially increased their scope and breadth of their operations-related services. Furthermore, investors are increasingly performing deep-dive due diligence on fund manager operations at both fund level and management company levels. This book provides current and practical guidance on the foundations of how alternative investment managers build and manage their operations. While other publications have focused on generalized overviews of historical trading procedures across multiple asset classes, and the technical intricacies of specific legacy operational procedures, Alternative Investment Operations will be the first book to focus on explaining up-to-date information on the specific real-world operational practices actually employed by alternative investment managers. This book will focus on how to actually establish and manage fund operations. Alternative Investment Operations will be an invaluable up-to-date resource for fund managers and their operations personnel as well as investors and service providers on the implementation and management of best practice operations. 
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