Hedge fund valuation methods must be fair and investors should be allowed to exit the fund unimpeded, the Securities and Exchange Commission seems to be saying. The SEC is increasingly focusing on how hedge funds value investments to ensure that wealthy individual investors and pension funds are receiving fair treatment, with RD Legal Capital the latest of several examples. SEC investigating RD Legal Capital on hedge fund valuation issues of and performance fees Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal’s Rob Copeland and Aruna Viswanatha reported the SEC is investigating if RD Legal Capital LLC artificially inflated…
Hedge Fund Valuation Issues Investigated By SEC
Mark Melin
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.