Follow The Leader: Thought Leadership As A Practice

By Diane Harrison, Panegyric Marketing One of the better business magazines offering learning, guidance, and innovation can also take credit for coining the phrase ‘thought leadership.’ Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategy + Business editor Joel Kurtzman named a select group of industry innovators who contributed insights in a series of interviews in the magazine as ’thought […] Read more »

Think Before You Speak: Creating Maximum Impact

By Diane Harrison, Panegyric Marketing   A t some point in every business, there comes a time when you need to sit down and engage in some introspective planning to create, refresh or fine-tune the marketing message.  Most people who are successful in business are willing to spend whatever time, energy and resources are required […] Read more »

Top Five Things To Put In Your Hedge Fund Presentation

By William Battersby, Asset Dynamics Ltd.   The marketer’s life revolves around presentations –planning them, making them, arranging them and updating them.  The marketer’s tool is almost universally PowerPoint.  Whether delivering a lecture to a hall of 500 people, or a one on one briefing, the marketer rarely risks any meeting without having something produced […] Read more »

The JOBS Act – has it made an impact?

By Shane Brett, Founder of Global Perspectives   Background Last September the much anticipated JOBS Act became law in the United States. The intention of the act was to make it easier for small businesses to raise funding in the US. An unintended consequence of that act was that it also lifted the long standing […] Read more »

An Allocators View Of An Effective First Meeting For Hedge Fund Marketing

By Shaunak Amin & Joe Peta of Novus Partners, INC. “Bud Fox, I look at a hundred deals a day. I choose one.” –Gordon Gekko, after a pitch from a prospective broker Despite the hilariously outdated technology props and some extinct jargon, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is still revered by financial industry insiders. Even today, […] Read more »

Elevated Expectations of Hedge Fund Advertising Come Down To Earth

From StreetID There has been a lot of hype for the JOBS Act and the changes it could bring to the hedge fund community. Many had high hopes for the act, which would allow hedge funds to advertise. But when the rules were put into place in September 2013, investors could barely tell the difference. […] Read more »

Five Hedge Fund Surprises For 2014

By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Partner Agecroft Partners Each year, Agecroft Partners predicts the top hedge fund industry trends through their contact with more than 2,000 institutional investors and 300 hedge fund organizations. Because the hedge fund industry is very dynamic and constantly changing, it is important for firms to anticipate what changes are […] Read more »

Top Hedge Funds Not Yet Engaged With Social Media For Brand Building

By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight When at last the SEC ruled in July that the 80-odd year old ban on general solicitation and advertising of private placements was lifted there was much prognostication on what that could mean for hedge funds. Already 40 Act Funds were being run by hedge fund management […] Read more »

10 Things You need To Know About Hedge Fund Marketing Content

By Brenna Hardman,  CEO of Buy Side Design Hedge funds can now advertise. As the long-time SEC ban on hedge fund solicitation is retired and hedge funds capitalize on the JOBS Act, hedge fund managers should keep the following in mind: 1. Good design pays off. A 2004 study by the Design Council in the UK showed […] Read more »

Chart Of The Day – Operating Margins Across Hedge Fund AUM Range

By Hedge Fund Insight staff Today’s Chart Of The Day comes from the Citi Prime Finance 2013 Business Expense Benchmark Survey released this week. We have known for some time that the balance of supply and demand post 2009 has been such that it has meant that hedge funds, even very well known and large […] Read more »