REGISTRATION OF THE HEDGE FUND (OPENING OF THE INVESTMENT FUND)

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WHY HEDGE FUNDS?

Opening your own hedge fund will be a perfect solution for a wide range of business issues:

• Planning to attract investments?
• Looking for a way to protect your assets?
• Want to effectively manage the money and assets of third parties?
• Is it necessary to ensure the confidentiality of business ownership?
• Will you conduct an IPO or ICO?

WHAT COUNTRY IS BEST FOR REGISTERING THE HEDGE FUND?

For registering a hedge fund, you can choose either offshore or any other country. Caymans, Bahamas, BWOs, Panama – all of these countries have a very high reputation and are perfectly suiting for registering the fund.

If you want to gain the trust of European investors, you can register an investment fund in one of the countries of the European Union.

The choice of the country for registering a hedge fund is also depends on the cost and speed of opening the fund. For example, the opening and maintenance of an offshore fund is usually cheaper than European or American ones.

When choosing a country to register a fund, SBSB specialists always take into account many factors, including taxes, banks and customer wishes.

TYPES OF HEDGE FUNDS

Charitable funds, pension funds, funds-incubators, venture funds, etc. –all of the diversity of hedge funds is hard to describe.
Each country aims to attract investments. Due to this, various types of investment and hedge funds, suitable for solving almost any business problem, have been developed.

For example, private funds are perfectfor private capital preservation. Also, creating a private fund can be an excellent solution for tax planning.

Investment funds are used for attracting investments and dynamicfinancial activity. If you count on professional investors, one of the various types of professional funds will suit you.

Do you want to attract unsophisticated investors? One of the standard public funds will suit you.

Choosing the appropriate type of fund can be a difficult problem, and with SBSB services you are guaranteed to get the advice of professionals.

COSTS OF OPPENING A HEDGE FUND

There is no exact answer for this question. In addition to a wide variety of countries and types of funds, the cost of its creation is influenced by many key factors and individual wishes of each client.

Typically, the cost for registering of simple private hedge funds in offshore jurisdiction starts from USD 15,000. At the same time, opening of investment fund, which allows working with minimal restrictions on the size of deposits or type of investors, can start from USD 100,000.

High cost depends not only to the cost of opening a hedge fund, but also by the need to attract various services for its maintenance. For example, investment funds, that are full-fledged financial institutions, often require the accountants, auditors, administrators, investment managers, corporate directors, depositaries (custodians), etc.

Here at SBSB we will be happy to answer all of your questions regarding the cost of registering a hedge fund, and also we will be able to offer a variety of related services that may be required in the process of opening a hedge of any type.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO OPEN A HEDGE FUND?

The time required for registering a hedge fund can be divided into two important stages.

The first stage is preparing for the opening of the fund. It includes the choice of the country and the type of hedge fund, the coordination of the management mechanisms of the fund and its structure, the collection and preparation of all necessary documents, etc. The duration of this stage mostly depends on the client himself, and can take from several weeks to several months.

The importance of this stage should not be underestimated, because the quality of the preparation will affect not only the success of hedge fund registration, but also its further work.

The second stage is the direct registration of a hedge fund. Some types of funds can pass state registration within 1-2 days with the correct preparation! Nevertheless, for most types of investment funds, state registration takes much more time – from 2 months.

By enlisting the support of SBSB qualified specialists starting from the first stage, you can save a lot of time on preparing for the opening of a hedge fund and significantly increase the chances for your project to succeed.

We have a lot of experience in working and communicating with funds in the following countries: Bahamas, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Europe.

For over five years we have been consulting our clients, CIS residents, in the field of corporate law, international tax planning, finance, international licensing and integrated business support in more than 40 countries.