A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund

Successful Hedge Fund Investing Begins with a Well-Informed Strategy

The hedge fund industry recently breached the 3 trillion dollar mark, exceeding the peak asset levels seen before the financial crisis. Until now, no resource was available that offered a strategy for launching, operating, and investing in hedge funds with a focus on the ever-growing energy commodity markets.

From hedge fund and energy industry experts, Erik Serrano Berntsen and John Thompson, comes a practical and comprehensive guide for both managers and investors. Managers will find it useful when thinking about the design and launch of their own hedge fund in the dynamic energy commodity field. A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund also gives investors a definitive resource to a proven process for evaluating the various energy commodity markets as potential hedge fund investments.

A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund shows how hedge funds and their underlying markets are structured, the opportunities for investment available, and the risks to avoid. Practical and comprehensive, the text contains an approach for developing a well-informed investment strategy as well as information on how to conduct thorough due diligence. Serrano Berntsen and Thompson include an examination of the practical aspects of operations and infrastructure, as well as fundraising, legal, and tax implications of creating a fund.

Written as an accessible guide, A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund is filled with the information and guidance needed to help launch a fund or invest in an energy commodity hedge fund that can become an institutional quality asset.