Articles from Seward & Kissel

Seward & Kissel today announced the launch of the Financial Institution Risk Management (FIRM) practice designed to help financial institutions proactively manage risk, respond to regulatory and litigation challenges, and protect enterprise value in an increasingly complex environment – formalizing a service offering that Seward & Kissel has been providing its clients for decades.

Against a backdrop of elevated interest rates, hedge funds led by new managers are responding to pressure to outperform, according to the 2023 edition of The Seward & Kissel New Manager Hedge Fund Study. Produced annually by the leading law firm to the private fund industry, the Seward & Kissel study reveals a substantial increase in the proportion of new managers launching with an incentive allocation hurdle, guaranteeing investors a baseline return before the manager takes a performance allocation. The full study is available here.

With the most severe obstacles to businesses imposed by the pandemic beginning to ease, both hedge fund investors and managers showed marked signs of confidence in alternative investments in 2021, according to The Seward & Kissel New Hedge Fund Study, an annual study of newly launched hedge funds. The Study, available here, analyzes a series of metrics indicating optimism in the hedge fund industry.