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EisnerAmper’s Trends Watch is a weekly entry to our Alternative Investments Intelligence blog, featuring the insights of executives from alternative investment firms. This week, Elana talks to John Fox, CIO, Fenimore Asset Management/ FAM Funds.

This week, Elana talks to Adam Cai, Vice President & Director of Research, Goldenwise Capital Management Inc.

Many of the investors flocking to alternative investments have limited understanding of them. The contraction of the current ‘mega manager’ dominance will see a redistribution of assets toward smaller and mid-sized managers.

At the EisnerAmper CFO Roundtable, industry veteran Michael Merrigan of Shadmoor Advisors LLC in New York, emphasized three key traits managers should exhibit to enhance their chances of successfully passing the operational due diligence process.

The investing environment will be characterized by bursts of volatility within different asset classes as investors try to understand the implications of less accommodative monetary policy, changes in tax regimes and a potential walk-back in regulation.

EisnerAmper recently co-hosted The Art of the Seed Deal with Kleinberg Kaplan Wolf Cohen. Speakers discussed their process for seeding managers, how they evaluate managers and what they focus on throughout the evaluation process.

This week, Elana talks to Maneesh Shanbhag, Co-Founder and Partner, Greenline Partners.

2016 compared quite favorably to a typical year for venture capital investing in terms of deal activity and funding. Here are the highlights.

The investing outlook for 2017 and beyond is in a state of anticipation. How will President Donald Trump and his policies impact the landscape? At the CBSACNY Investing Outlook Event a trio of industry veteran panelists shared some of their views.

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 speaks with Justin Frankel, Co-Portfolio Manager, RiverPark Structural Alpha Fund.

This week, Elana talks to David Dardashti, Portfolio Manager, Partner, Mulholland Vista Capital Advisors.

Investcorp’s Hedge Fund Chief Operating Officer John Franklin weighs in on a handful of best practices fund managers should employ to meet their fiduciary obligation to investors. Here are a handful of areas he addressed and how managers can comply.

The 'Follow the Right Path When Growing Your Fund' seminar guest speakers provided views, insights and ideas on some of the issues a fund may encounter as it begins to grow and take on more investors. Topics included operational due diligence and utilizing separately managed accounts.

There is little, if any, IRS guidance on the taxability of contributions received by a crowdfunding campaign. The IRS does address crowdfunding taxation in Information Letter 2016-0036 by looking at the general principles of income inclusion.

While Q1 2016 saw a sharp pullback in venture capital investment, Q2 investment rebounded with investments totaling $15.8B. This number could be slightly misleading, because approximately $5B of the amount invested was for just a pair of companies: Uber and Snapchat.

Investment managers are designing complicated agreements in response to the investor demands towards a separately managed accounts model that has become very popular. There has also been an uptick of special purpose fund vehicles.

Boston’s hedge fund industry has experienced robust growth the last several months and is on track for more.

Small hedge fund managers need to be strategic when trying to grow their business. Panelists discussed ways emerging funds can thrive. Smaller hedge fund managers need to consider and identify the most viable investors for their specific investment strategy.

The EisnerAmper Emerging Manager Roundtable attracted approximately two dozen up-and-coming hedge funds. Michael Weinberg, Chief Investment Strategist at Protege Partners, argued emerging managers often generate higher returns than established ones.

Florida Hedge Fund Roundup: MFA Network 2015 and Context Summits - Miami 2015. Thousands of hedge fund professionals went to the Managed Funds Association Network and Context Summits. Summary of the conferences includes the topic of fundraising for new fund launches.