Form PF is experiencing growing pains after its first decade. Those firms that are required to use Form PF to report confidential information on private funds will be providing many more details if key amendments are ultimately adopted by both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) The new… Read More >>
SEC Moves to Revamp Form PF & Other Briefs
SEC Lowers the PE Threshold for Form PF The SEC is proposing changes to Form PF, which is the reporting form “for certain SEC-registered investment advisers to private funds,” including lowering the threshold for firms that come into scope for the reporting requirement. The SEC proposal “would decrease the reporting threshold for large private equity… Read More >>
Digital Magazine Summer/Fall 2013 Edition —The New Rules of Operational Data Management
Summer/Fall 2013 FTF News took on the “New Rules of Operational Data Management.” We focused on the data chores for collateral and margining for swaps, the products and services that exploit the legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, the information demands of reconciliation/exception management, the hedge fund reporting chores of Form PF, and the prospect of… Read More >>
Form PF Forces the Data Management Issue
Following the passage of Dodd-Frank in 2010, investment advisers face a multitude of new challenges connected with SEC registration and reporting requirements. For many advisers, the extensive demands for a variety of new information add to the headaches involved in compliance.While the new reporting requirements impose costly and complex burdens on hedge fund and private… Read More >>
Time to Download Our New Issue
Well, we’ve done it again. We pooled our vast editorial resources and put together another digital magazine for you. This time, the Summer/Fall 2013 edition takes on information challenges in a new way by focusing on the “New Rules of Operational Data Management.” We want to help you cope with emerging and ongoing data challenges… Read More >>
Case Study: GoldenTree Builds an ‘Essential’ Data Warehouse
Centralizing operational data in a warehouse “in some shape or form” is essential if a hedge fund or a small asset manager wants to grow and be profitable, argues Bill Christian, chief operating officer for hedge fund GoldenTree Asset Management. This is especially true in the current climate of tight margins, regulatory pressures and increasing… Read More >>
