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Hedge Fund Private Placement Memorandum (PPM)

We here at PPM.net help create professional hedge fund private placement memorandum for your hedge fund private placement investment. A hedge fund is an investment fund that is open to a limited amount and type of investor. A hedge fund is purportedly allowed to make investments spanning a wide array of industries and products – others funds may, however, not be allowed to do this – while paying a performance fees to its manager.

Risk and Openness

A hedge fund tries to mitigate risk and even offset possible investment losses by ‘hedging’ their investment strategies, mainly by short selling. Hedge funds are typically open to a limited number and type of investor, such as wealthy individuals or even accredited investors. These restrictions allow for an exemption in certain jurisdictions from the many regulations governing short selling, leveraging, fee structures, derivatives and the amount of liquidity in the investment fund. A hedge fund often binds itself to a certain investment outlook or strategy, including the types of investments it will allocate funds with and the fund’s leverage capacity or level. These disclosures are typically made in the hedge fund private placement offering memorandum.

Section 3(c)(1) of the United States

Investment Company Act of 1940 established the terms for what came to be known as “hedge funds”. These hedge funds are allowed to be exempt from SEC registration. Much like private placements of other firms, hedge funds must issue a private placement memorandum (PPM)
to potential private investors when raising private capital either to launch or expand its business.

Disclosures

A hedge fund tries to mitigate risk and even offset possible investment losses by ‘hedging’ their investment strategies, mainly by short selling. Hedge funds are typically open to a limited number and type of investor, such as wealthy individuals or even accredited investors. These restrictions allow for an exemption in certain jurisdictions from the many regulations governing short selling, leveraging, fee structures, derivatives and the amount of liquidity in the investment fund. A hedge fund private placement often binds itself to a certain investment outlook or strategy, including the types of investments it will allocate funds with and the fund’s leverage capacity or level. These disclosures are typically made in the hedge fund private placement offering memorandum.

Potential Private Investors

The type of investors a hedge fund would consider taking money from is most likely one that they have a pre existing relationship. Like in most private placements, and almost more pertinent to a hedge fund private offering, it is illegal to solicit investors without having some prior relationship with that person or entity. Thus, before sending out the Private Placement for investment, this relationship must be in place. On the other hand, a broker dealer, who assists in the selling of one’s private placement securities, can solicit his/her database of investors as this is considered having the pre-existing relationship status.

Hedge Fund Private Placement Suitability Standards

Any investor in a hedge fund, or a hedge fund private placement must qualify to investor. Suitability requirements mainly call for accredited investors (those with a certain amount of network and ‘sophistication’) or qualified buyers (even QIBs).

Section 3(c)(1) states that a hedge fund is not allowed to exceed 100 investors Additionally, among others, the hedge fund is not permitted to suggest or conduct a public offering.

Proper Disclaimers

In the Private Placement (private placement memorandum), the hedge fund must divulge calculated disclaimers in regards to stating information in regards to the funds past performance, its fund management experience and more. For instance, the hedge fund Private Placement should elucidate market and economic conditions and environments such as historical, fees, expenses, financial statements, and more. In additional, the risk factors must clearly be laid out and investors must be warned that they can lose their entire investment or that the hedge fund may lose all of its value.

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Our team has written scores of hedge fund private placement memorandum and business plans for both large ($5 billion) and small investment funds ($500,000). Our team can help structure your hedge fund documents to ensure regulatory adherence, attractiveness and more.

Please Contact Us for more information regarding setting up a hedge fund private placement memorandum.

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