Changing investor demographics, pressure to boost investment results while also cutting fees, increased competition and the ramifications of potential tax reform will drive significant changes in the hedge fund industry over the next few years. Following are overviews of several key trends that will present new opportunities and new challenges. Success for any hedge fund…
Michael Gottdenker glimpsed the future over a bowl of pasta earlier this year, and he liked what he saw. The chief executive officer of Hargray Communications, a telecommunications company servicing South Carolina and Georgia, was having lunch with billionaire Jim Davis, founder of family office Redwood Capital Investments, and his adviser David Watson. Over the…
This week’s Equity Market Minute shines light on equity market ‘melt-ups’ and finds the current fundamental backdrop to be more conducive to a bull market than a euphoric rise in stock prices. Prior ‘melt-up’ phases were characterized by a rapid rise in price coupled with more tepid earnings growth. Earnings and price have accelerated at…
The European Union’s long-anticipated implementation of MiFID II reform will change the way institutional investors pay for research. Investors’ scrutiny of value for money is intensifying as their own businesses come under pressure from end-users’ evaluation of prices paid vs. the value added to their income. The result may be a reduction and redistribution of…
The recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law Dec. 22, 2017, is the most significant tax legislation since 1986. In this alert, we focus on the changes that affect individual income, gift and estate tax. Individual income tax New tax brackets Most income previously included in the 10 percent and 15 percent…
As part of yesterday’s historic passing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act), the U.S. international tax world has been redefined. The Act contains significant international tax provisions that will drastically change the way U.S. multinationals are taxed and conduct business abroad as well as change how foreign multinationals will conduct business in…
The hedge fund, private equity and alternative asset industries will be impacted by a number of tax provisions from the final tax reform bill called the “Tax Cuts and Job Act” that was signed into law by the president on Dec. 22, 2017. Provisions will affect carried interest, general tax rates, compensation, like-kind exchanges and…
Registered investment advisers (RIAs) that maintain custody of customer assets, and who are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), are subject to various regulations intended to protect their clients. One such rule under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 – the “custody rule” (i.e., SEC Rule 206(4)) – requires RIAs to obtain external…
Fund managers are typically responsible for the preparation of financial statements of their underlying investment, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 946 – Financial Services – Investment Companies, which requires the valuation of investments under ASC 820 – Fair Value Measurements. Please note that this topic excludes interests that are required to be consolidated…
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Revenue Recognition Task Forces have been issuing industry specific guidance related to Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Several of these issues relate specifically to fund managers and should be considered when implementing the new revenue recognition standard. Identification…
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