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Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: As the hedge fund industry swells to accommodate institutional investors and pensions that have decided to increase their alternative allocations the standards for communicating strategy, strength of infrastructure, and long term outlook for funds and the businesses they are built on have risen tremendously. Opalesque spoke with a few people in hedge fund support services to find out how the asset raising aspect of growing a hedge fund business has changed, and how managers can best leverage support services to meet their business goals. See part one here and part two here.

Types of strategic capital investment terms Eamon Heavey, Director, Head of Americas Capital Introduction for Merrill Lynch’s prime brokerage group says generally one of two types of strategic investment agreements are used when his group matches a strategic investor to a Fund. An agreement can be based on the venture capital/private equity model where a seed firm will take approximately 20% of the general partnership; or, an investment model which occurs largely when a firm doesn’t want to t......................

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