Fund of Funds Investing: A Roadmap to Portfolio Diversification

Notes

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GLOSSARY

1. Some of the entries were previously printed in Strachman, D., The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

^[1] The 2003 Securities and Exchange Commission Report, "The Implications of the Growth of Hedge Funds."

^[2] FINRA is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. According to its web site, it oversees nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, 173,000 branch offices, and 656,000 registered securities representatives. Its chief role is to protect investors by maintaining the fairness of the U.S. capital markets; as such, it regulates all mutual funds. Visit www.finra.org/index.htm for more information.

^[3] According to PerTrac.

^[4] Personal interview done by Richard S. Bookbinder, April 25, 2008.

^[5] Google search, April 13, 2009: www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hedge+funds&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=.

^[6] Regulation T, www.finra.org/Industry/Compliance/RegulatoryFilings/RegulationT/index.htm.

^[7] Regulation FD, www.law.uc.edu/CCL/regFD/index.html.

^[8] 2007 PerTrac Hedge Fund Database Study, March 4, 2008.

^[9] Ibid.

^[10] Ibid.

^[11] New York Times, "Company News: Bank of New York Acquires Ivy Asset Management," August 10, 2000, ...