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EisnerAmper’s Trends Watch is an entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the views of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Bahman Mossavar-Rahmani, Founder and CIO of UAS Asset Management.

EisnerAmper’s Trends Watch is a weekly entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Wayne Yu, Founder, BCK Capital Management.

EisnerAmper’s Trends Watch is a weekly entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to David Simon, CEO, Twin Capital Management.

Q1 2017 got off to a good start in terms of venture capital dollars invested. Software and life sciences were the 2 sectors that received the majority of activity, representing more than 50% of the deals.

EisnerAmper’s Alternative Investments Intelligence Trends Watch blog features the views and insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners.

This week, Elana talks to Boris Stavrev at Concise Capital Management about the outlook for the alternative investment industry and the economy.

We can expect increases in labor productivity from technology, decreasing workforce participation and capital expenditures in the long term. Corporations will use more capital on acquisitions, share buybacks and dividends.

The future for the alternative investment industry is bright and will play a pivotal role in portfolio construction going forward. An allocation to alternative investments is an effective tool to minimize the impact of a large correction in bonds.

The notion that anything that ties up money for more than a year or two is somehow taking on much higher risk is simply off-base. Investors often don’t realize how much extra return they can generate by having more patience with their investments.

AML has become a prominent issue for private funds. As Louis Bruno prepares to address the issue at The Global Alternative Investment Management Operations Summit, we discussed a few key points with him in advance.

Private Equity: it’s not enough to look at the financial valuation of a company. Digital intelligence can also help private equity managers during their due diligence process as they evaluate their investments. Here are a few things firms should consider.

While venture capitalists are continuing to make fewer investments, they are making significantly larger bets and venture capital continues to make sizable investments in a more select group of potentially outstanding companies.

Alternative investments provide interesting ways for high-net-worth individuals to diversify their portfolios.

With institutional investors allocating more capital to a smaller number of alternative asset managers, plus the enhanced regulatory requirements funds are obligated to comply with when showcasing their performance, managers are facing greater challenges.

The alternative investment industry has seen a shift toward fund managers outsourcing some of their operations components. At the Alternative Investments Forum, panelists shared their perspective on the latest trends and alternative investment managers outsourcing is expected to continue.

Erik Serrano Berntsen, CEO of Stable Asset Management, a London- and New York-based investment firm focused on seeding managers and building asset management firms, argued 'specialist' managers often present some of the best seed opportunities because of their robust investment ideas.

At this month’s EisnerAmper monthly breakfast series solely for fund managers and investors, industry veterans shared their predictions for alternative investments this year. The hedge fund industry is anticipating interest rate hikes and how that will impact performance.

Hedge funds and other alternative investment firms might have the preconceived notion that marketing to family offices is easier than targeting other investor groups. Panelists shared how fund managers can be successful in receiving allocations from the different family office groups.

Compliance matters have become more arduous for alternative investment firms. The CFO Roundtable included Bruce Kahne, CCO for EnTrust Capital, a New York-based fund of hedge funds manager. Topics include cybersecurity and personal trading policies of fund managers.

Successful hedge funds put investors’ interests ahead of their own but advisors concurred that founders must stick to their core investment thesis they had success with previously. Investors want more transparency. Managers lowered their fees to cater to allocators.