ACA Compliance Report Facilitates Benchmarking of Private Fund Manager Compliance Practices (Part Two of Two)

ACA Compliance Group recently released a report and sponsored a webcast describing the results of its most recent survey of hedge fund and private equity fund manager compliance practices.  This article, the second in a two-part series covering the survey results, discusses: insider trading issues (including information barriers, online data rooms, non-disclosure agreements, restricted and watch lists, political intelligence, expert networks and public company contacts); and expense practices (including the use of expense caps, the allocation of expenses among a manager and its funds, expense allocation reasonableness reviews and other expense-related controls).  The first article in this series summarized survey results relating to fund managers’ preparation and completion of regulatory filings (e.g., Form ADV, Form PF and non-U.S. regulatory filings), including a discussion of how many managers are making various regulatory filings; what resources are being used to prepare such filings; how Form PF expenses are being allocated among a manager and its funds; and whether Form PF is being shared with fund investors.  The first article also discussed survey results relating to presence examinations.  See “ACA Compliance Report Facilitates Benchmarking of Private Fund Manager Compliance Practices (Part One of Two),” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 6, No. 38 (Oct. 3, 2013).

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