How to Set Up Your Own Hedge Fund
By Hannah M. Terhune, Esquire 2006©
Capital Management Law Group, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
        
By and large there seem to be two groups of people in circulation these days: those who want to run a hedge fund and those that want to invest in them. For many, the dream of running a hedge fund is realized once they move beyond the bounds of cocktail party chatter and investigate for themselves what is required to set up a hedge fund.

Luckily for Main Street, the answers from Wall Street are amazingly simple. Today, pretty much anyone with $15k or thereabouts can start a hedge fund. What money cannot buy is talent, courage and entrepreneurial drive. Traders and money managers often dream about one day running their own hedge fund, managing large sums of money, and competing toe-to-toe with the world’s top traders. For the uninitiated, the first step toward setting up a hedge fund is getting a better grasp on what exactly a hedge fund is and what it is not.

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