- ‘2 and 20’ fee structure
- absolute returns
- accounting firms
- acquisitions of investors
- ad-hoc demands, investor relations
- administration costs
- administrators
- advertising restrictions
- agriculture
- AIM LSE sub-market
- air conditioning
- Allen, Woody
- ‘alpha’ returns to skill
- Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)
- Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
- alternative investments
- aluminium
- Amaranth Advisors
- analytical skills
- annual reports
- anti-money laundering
- appendices
- arbitrage
- Articles of Association
- Asian developing economies
- asset allocations
- asset classes
- asset management
- assets under management (AUM)
- asymmetrical information
- attractiveness of energy commodities
- audits
- Australia
- Austria
- A.W. Jones & Co.
-
- back-office functions
- backwardation, futures
- Bacon, Louis
- Bahamas
- balance sheets of banks
- bankruptcies
- banks
- Basel III requirements
- beginning is half the journey proverb
- Belgium
- benchmarks, performance issues
- Berkshire Hathaway
- the big picture, energy commodities
- biomass
- Bloomberg
- boards of directors
- bonds
- bonuses
- bottom-up analysis
- brand values
- Brazil
- break-even points
- BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
- British Virgin Islands
- brokers
- budgets
- Buffet, Warren
- business continuity plans (BCPs)
- business cycles
- business management
- business plans
- business strategy development
- buy outs
-
- cables
- California
- call options
- capital adequacy requirements, banks
- capital flows
- capital gains
- capital sources see fundraising
- cash management
- cash-flow planning
- Caxton Associates
- Cayman Islands
- certification
- Channel Islands
- chief financial officers (CFOs)
- chief operating officers (COOs)
- China
- civil law
- clearing brokers
- clearing houses
- clients
- climate change
- CO2 emissions
- coal
- coal futures
- cocoa
- collaborative relationships
- collateral
- commodities
- Commodities Corporation
- commodities risk
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
- common law
- common shares
- communications
- compensation expenses
- competitive advantages,
- complexity issues, energy commodities
- compliance
- compressors, gas
- conferences
- confidential explanatory memorandum see private placement memorandum
- confirmation
- conflicts of interest
- consistency needs
- consultant-based marketing efforts
- consumer retail markets
- contact details
- contango, futures
- contingency plans
- contingent liabilities
- contracts
- controls, taxation considerations
- convergence trends
- convertible arbitrage strategies
- cooling water, nuclear power
- core competencies
- corporate governance
- corporate partner pension funds
- correlated returns
- costs
- counterparty/settlement (credit) risk
- Covey, Stephen
- ‘crack spreads’
- credit terms
- Cruise, Tom
- cultural issues, business plans
- currency risk
- custodians,
- customer friendliness factors, domiciles
- CVs
- Cyprus
-
- data
- databases
- deferred futures contracts
- Delaware, USA
- demand and supply factors
- deregulation
- derivatives
- Deutsche Bank
- developing economies
- directional trading
- directors
- distributions
- diversification
- diversity of market participants
- dividends
- DJUBS CI
- documentation
- Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- domiciles
- common-law/civil-law factors
- definition
- legal/tax-domiciles
- drawdowns
- due diligence
- due diligence questionnaires (DDQs)
-
- early-stage under-one-year funds
- economic geography
- EDF
- the edge
- efficiency effects
- electricity
- see also coal...; gas...; nuclear...; oil...; renewable...
- emissions
- employees
- endowments
- energy commodities
- see also coal...; electricity...; emissions...; gas...; nuclear...; oil...; renewable...; weather...
- attractiveness
- checklist
- complexity issues
- definition
- developing economies
- fungibility factors
- future prospects
- logistics
- merit order
- opportunities
- physical characteristics
- solvability issues
- typical hedge fund strategies
- valuations
- versatility factors
- volatility
- energy exchanges
- environmental issues
- E.ON
- equity market indices
- ERISA
- ethics
- ethylene
- Europe
- European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
- European Energy Exchange (EEX)
- evolution considerations
- exchange-listed shares
- exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
- execution brokers
- expenses
-
- failure rates, hedge funds
- family offices
- FATCA
- feasibility testing
- feedback loops
- feeder funds
- fees
- fiduciary duties
- final thoughts
- financial institutions
- financial knowledge, basics
- financial macroeconomic dynamics
- financial resources
- financial statements
- the firm
- forecasts
- foreign exchange (FX)
- former teams
- Fortune
- forward foreign currency contracts
- forwards
- foundations
- founding investors
- fracking processes
- France
- fraud
- freight
- fund capacity preferences, investors
- fund management
- fund vehicles
- fund-of-funds (FoFs)
- fundamental analysis
- fundraising
- fungibility factors, energy commodities
- future prospects, energy commodities
- futures
- see also coal...; gas...; LNG...; oil...
-
- gas
- gas futures
- gas swaps
- gate provisions
- GDP statistics
- Gecko, Gordon (Wall Street character)
- general partners (GPs)
- geographies
- geothermal power
- Germany
- gigawatt-hours (GWH)
- Glencore
- Global Financial Crisis from (GFC)
- global investors
- globalization growth-driver of the hedge fund industry
- gold
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- governance processes
- growth-drivers of the hedge fund industry
- GSCI
- Guernsey
-
- harmonized markets
- hedge funds
- see also business...; trading...
- business valuations
- characteristics
- definitions
- failure rates
- future prospects
- growth-drivers of the industry
- historical background
- historical performance
- ‘lifecycle’ stages
- skill levels
- statistics
- successful hedge funds
- typical hedge fund strategies
- hedging
- ‘herd effects’
- hidden taxes, domicile selections
- historical performance
- holistic views
- Hong Kong
- Hostetter, Amos
- human capital,
- human resource management
- Hunter, Brian
- hydroelectricity
-
- ICE
- idiosyncratic risk
- implied volatility, definition
- in-house marketing teams
- incentive allocations
- indemnification terms
- India
- industrial economies
- inflation
- information
- Information Memorandum
- infrastructural issues
- Inland Revenue
- insolvencies
- institutional investors
- insurance funds
- integrated markets
- intellectual capital
- interest rates
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
- Internet
- Investment Advisors Act
- investment advisors (IAs)
- investment advisory agreements
- investment banks
- Investment Company Act,
131
- investment (macro/long-term) strategy design
- investment management agreements
- investment management enterprise structure
- investment management groups (IMGs)
- investment managers (IMs)
- investment objectives
- investment sub-advisors
- investor bases
- investor planning and targeting
- investor relations
- investors
- see also fundraising
- acquisitions
- characteristics
- maintenance programmes
- requirements
- retention efforts
- selection criteria
- statistics
- types
- Ireland
- IT
-
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jones, Alfred Winslow
- Jones, Paul Tudor
- juristic persons
-
- key investment information
- key person provisions
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Knight, Bob
- knowledge economies
- Korea
- Kovner, Bruce
- Kyoto protocol
-
- late-stage more-than-one-year funds
- Latin American developing economies
- lawyers
- legal issues
- see also regulations
- basics for funds
- costs
- disclaimers
- entities
- environments
- form
- information about IMGs
- requirements
- segregation of assets and side-pocket structures
- systems
- legal service providers
- Leipzig Power Exchange (LPX)
- leverage
- liability transfers/retentions/indemnifications
- liberalization of commodities markets
- licences
- ‘lifecycle’ stages of funds
- limited companies
- limited partners (LPs)
- Lincoln, Abraham
- liquefied natural gas (LNG)
- liquidity
- litigation
- LNG futures
- local biases, service providers
- lock-up periods
- logistics
- London Stock Exchange (LSE)
- long-short strategy
- Loomis, Carol
- Luxembourg
- Lynch, Peter
-
- Macau
- macroeconomic dynamics
- Madoff, Bernie
- maintenance programmes, investors
- manufacturing industries, developing economies
- margin requirements
- margin-to-capital ratio
- marginal costs, merit order
- mark-to-market
- market research
- market risk
- marketing
- see also advertising...; in-house...; monthly performance reports...; prime brokers; road shows; third-party...; word-of-mouth...
- fund-of-funds as channels
- tools
- markets
- Marks, Howard
- ‘marriage’ analogy, service providers
- master funds
- master-feeder fund structures
- meetings
- Memorandum of Association
- mergers
- merit order
- metals
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Middle East
- minutes of meetings
- MIT
- money laundering
- money managers
- monitoring activities
- monopolies
- monthly performance reports (‘teasers’)
- Moore Capital Management
- multi-strategy hedge funds
- mutual funds
-
- Nabisco
- national biases, regulations
- nearby futures contracts
- negotiations
- net asset values (NAVs)
- Netherlands
- New York Mercantile Exchange (NYME)
- newsletters
- non-executive directors (NEDs)
- Nordic electricity market
- Nordpool Exchange
- Norway
- nuclear power
- numbers of market participants
- NYMEX
-
- Oaktree Capital
- off-shoot funds
- offering prices
- office space requirements
- offshore/onshore funds
- oil
- oil futures
- operating budgets
- operational costs
- operational risk
- operations
- optimization activities
- options–,
- organizational structures
- outsourcing considerations
- over-the-counter transactions (OTCs)
- ownership details of the investment firm
-
- partnerships
- passive beta benchmarks
- penalties, regulations
- pensions
- people see human capital
- performance issues
- ‘permanent presence’ doctrine
- petroleum
- PFIC status
- physical characteristics of energy commodities
- pipelines
- Poland
- political risk
- portfolio building
- portfolio management
- portfolios
- post-launch restructurings
- pre-launch funds
- prices–,
- prime brokers
- private equity
- private funds, definition
- private placement memorandum (PPM),
- privatizations
- procedures, back-office functions
- processes, back-office functions
- professional office funds
- professionalism factors
- psychological pressures
- public listings
- publications, information sources
- put options
-
- quantitative easing (QE)
-
- rail networks
- real and financial macroeconomic dynamics
- real-time information service providers
- record-keeping systems
- recruitment
- redemptions
- refrigeration tankers, LNG
- regionality aspects of electricity
- registered office service providers
- registration requirements, hedge funds
- regulations
- regulatory arbitrage
- regulatory risk
- relative returns, concepts
- relative value trading
- Renaissance Technologies
- renewable energy sources
- renovating/refitting processes, infrastructural issues
- reports
- reputations
- retail investors
- retention efforts, investors
- retirement plans
- return on equity (RoE)
- returns
- reviews, business plans
- Ricardo, David
- ring-fenced assets/investors
- risk
- risk appetite/tolerance, investors
- risk management
- risk-adjusted returns
- risk/reward ratios
- road shows, investors
- roundtables, conferences
- Rumsfeld, Donald H.
- Russia
- RWE
-
- Samuelson, Paul
- scenario analysis
- secondary markets
- Securities Act
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- securities’ laws
- seeding see pre-launch funds
- segregated duties
- segregated portfolio companies
- servers
- service industries, developing economies
- service providers
- settlement
- ‘sexy’ business plans
- Shakespeare, William
- shale oil and gas
- shares
- Sharpe ratio
- shell companies
- shipping
- short positions
- short selling
- side letters
- side-pocket structures
- silver
- Singapore
- single-strategy niche FoFs
- site visits
- skill levels
- skills’ shortages
- ‘sniff’ tests
- solar power
- solvability issues, energy commodities
- sophistication levels, investors
- Sortino ratio
- South Africa
- sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)
- space heating
- Spain
- special purpose vehicles (SPVs)-6
- speculation
- ‘speed dating’ conferences
- spread trading strategy
- stamp taxes
- standard deviations
- start-ups
- statistical jargon
- steel
- structural design decisions
- structuring tools, taxation challenges
- subscriptions
- substance and control considerations, taxation
- successful hedge funds
- supranational service providers
- swaps
- Sweden
- Swenson, David
- Switzerland
- systems
-
- tankers
- taxation
- avoidance problems
- domiciles
- evasion problems
- exempt investors
- structural design decisions
- substance and control considerations
- teams
- technical analysis
- technology
- telecommunications
- ‘The Ten Commandments’
- term structure of forward prices
- terms
- tests
- third-party marketers (TPMs)
- third-party risk managers
- three Ps (people/processes/procedures)
- top-down analysis
- trade-offs, taxation domiciles
- trading DDQ information
- trading energy commodities
- trading (micro/short-term)
strategy
- training needs
- transaction costs
- transmission issues, electricity
- transparency issues
- transportation
- trust
- Tudor Investment Corporation
-
- UK
- ultra high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs)
- unit trusts
- USA
- utilities
-
- valuations
- Vannerson, Frank
- venture capital, concepts
- volatility
- voting rights
-
- Wall Street (movie)
- warehousing
- weather dynamics
- West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
- Weymar, Helmut
- wholesale markets
- wind power
- winding-up powers
- word origins, hedge funds
- word-of-mouth marketing
- workstations
- world-class funds
- Yale University endowments (‘Yale Model’)
- Index compiled by Terry Halliday
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