With Growing Complexity And Shifting Regulatory Demands, Hedge Fund Administrators Grow To Survive

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Mark Melin
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As degrees of administrative complexity have been mounting for hedge fund managers, increasingly they are outsourcing the complexity to third-party administrators. A recent Citco report noted that the alternative investment industry is at a “tipping point” as shifting regulatory challenges, rising costs, increased technology needs, and strategy complexity is encouraging fund managers to focus on investments and increasingly outsource the complexity. As the landscape for fund managers change, so, are administrators, as evidenced by the recent acquisition of Deutsche Bank Alternative Fund Services by Apex Fund Services. The move highlights how fund services are finding competitive advantages by increasing their…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.