INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
GreenTraderFunds.com offers investment-management clients an integrated solution at very competitive prices. Our team of investment-management business professionals including highly experienced CPAs and outside attorneys in our network, work together on the different services an investment-management business needs. We develop and form your investment-management business and handle the monthly accounting for investors and annual tax preparation including investor K-1s at year-end. We can also help with compliance manuals, mock audits and more. We will be pleased to provide you with the contact information of a CPA firm our clients have found knowledgeable in providing attest (audit) services.
GreenTraderTax and GreenTraderFunds are highly regarded in the industry for our leading tax knowledge and strategies, which are key drivers of a business plan for investment managers and business traders. In consultation with you, we will select a tax-efficient structure that will be able to function as the vehicle for your full-fledged hedge fund when you are ready.
The biggest pitfall for new investment-management businesses is blowing tax elections. Many law firms handling development and formation don’t have experienced tax counsel, or they miss the elections later on. Administration firms usually punt elections to tax CPAs who may get involved at year end when it’s too late on most elections.
Count on us to handle all the tax matters correctly, including carried-interest
tax breaks, the S-corp self-employment tax loophole, trader tax status
and Section 475 MTM accounting, lower 60/40 Section 1256g forex tax treatment
breaks, international tax planning including PFIC and QEF elections, mini-master
feeders, good offshore fund destinations, tax and regulation changes and
more. Click
here to read our 2011 update on taxes for investment management businesses.
Because structuring your fund for optimal tax results to all parties usually
depends upon an analysis of your particular facts and objectives –
which can have many nuances, as do the governing legal rules – having
a seasoned team of tax professionals on your side is a big plus. Only
GreenTraderFunds has the depth of tax professionals needed to provide
investment managers with the professional advice needed.
Meet our team of key professionals:
• Robert A. Green, CPA and CEO manages our investment-management
practice area. Mr. Green consults clients on their overall investment-management
business plans, gets involved with tax structuring, strategies, accounting
and preparation. Mr. Green presents many of our Webinars and writes our
blogs on investment management. Click
here for full bio.
• Brent Gillett, JD heads up development and legal matters for our
investment management clients, operating from his law firm Investment
Law Group. Click
here for bio.
• Nava Listokin, JD is an attorney in our investment-management
practice area, mostly involved with incubator funds. She also prepares
entity
documents for our trader-tax clients too, working closely with Robert
Green. Click
here for full bio.
• Mark Feldman, JD is an attorney in our investment-management practice
area. Mr. Feldman is a top international tax attorney too and supports
our trader tax teams too. Click
here for full bio.
•Christie Kam joined our team from Goldman Sachs, where she was
a senior accountant in the hedge-fund administration group. She is experienced
in providing full back-office service to hedge funds of different sizes
and structures. Prior to Goldman, Christie worked for a venture capital
firm as a senior analyst, responsible for multiple venture capital funds
reporting. She also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Boston as senior
auditor in the investment-management group, serving top mutual funds and
asset-management firms. Ms. Kam is a CFA too. Click
here for full bio.
• Brocha Lewenstein, CPA heads up tax preparation for hedge funds
in GreenTraderFunds. Ms. Lewenstein joined us from PWC, where she prepared
hedge-fund tax returns for one of the leading investment banks on Wall
Street. Click
here for full bio.
GreenTraderFunds offers many services needed to launch a successful
investment management business at a competitive price. The biggest savings
and value come when clients get started with us at the earliest stages
of their plans. We pride ourselves on communicating knowledgeably and
clearly with our clients and strive to pierce through the legal and accounting
terminology to provide understandable answers.
We focus on start-up, incubator and smaller hedge funds and their investment
advisers. Our professionals understand their needs better than most and
we design our services around those needs. That means offering generous
amounts of Web and media content for advisers to make informed decisions,
offering some of the lowest prices nationally and internationally, giving
great support and customer service, and conceiving the best start-up full-service
packages in the industry.
We can help you launch a successful investment-management business:
Several important tax and financial-reform changes are in various phases
of development and negotiation in the U.S. and abroad. Many are directly
impacting investment management businesses, like Dodd-Frank Financial
Regulation enacted on July 21, 2010. Robert A. Green CPA is a leading
writer and speaker on these developments as you can see from our blog,
Webinars,
speaking
engagements, videos
and writing.
Brent Gillett, JD often co-hosts Webinars and Podcasts with Robert Green,
dealing with investment management business, regulatory and legal issues.
Learn our strategies for investment management businesses presented
by our top team of professionals in our schedule of upcoming Webinars.
- Investment-Management Business Series
- Webinar: Investment-management business set up
- Webinar: Maximize tax benefits in your investment-management business
- Webinar: Accounting for investment management businesses
- Webinar: Latest developments in tax legislation and regulation
- Webinar: Forex tax treatment and new CFTC rules
Consulting
on business, registration, accounting, tax and compliance: As
you conceive your investment-management business plans, consult with Robert
A. Green CPA.
Incubator
(start-up) funds: A GreenTraderFunds-conceived incubator fund
is the least expensive and most flexible hedge-fund business plan around!
Our network partner, Investment Law Group can form your incubator fund
for around $3,000. We have an excellent value package including incubator
formation, quarterly accounting and annual tax preparation and planning
for around $7,500.
That's basically your investment fund vehicle like a Delaware LLC, and
possibly your management company in your home state, if needed to start.
Plus, we provide with various restrictions and a road map on how to proceed,
so as not to go beyond the bounds of trading your own money only in the
incubator fund. Our (Brent Gillett's law firm) heavy lifting on the fund
paper work including private placement memorandum, LLC operating agreement,
and subscription materials can wait until phase II, when you have investors
ready to join the fund. We consider important licensing, registrations,
and other plans in phase I too.
The benefit of our incubator fund strategy is that you can begin generating
an attractive historical performance record now and wait on completing
the setup of a hedge fund (Phase II) that can be offered to others when
the fund is already a proven success. This takes considerable start-up
risk capital off the table. GreenTraderFunds can also handle the accounting
and preparation of your annual income tax return filings for a very reasonable
cost, less than what full-fledged hedge funds pay, since you don't have
complex investor-level accounting requirements.
Incubator funds can be scaled up to hedge funds or scaled down to a good
solution for trading your own funds too. We may use FundCount software
for accounting on incubator funds, which includes full general ledger,
securities, futures and forex, which means your entire set of entity books
are in one program. That's a more appropriate accounting solution anyway
for bigger traders with entities, versus using TradeLog just for securities
trade accounting, which many of our retail trader clients use (per our
Traders section). Learn more about incubator funds in our upcoming Webinar
series mentioned above. In some cases, we streamline accounting for incubator
funds, skipping FundCount and doing accounting on a quarterly basis. Check
with our Christie Kam CPA about that.
Tax
Preparation and Planning: Our highly experienced CPAs prepare
the tax returns for hedge fund(s), management companies and individuals.
Tax preparation is a core business of GreenTraderTax and we have all the
skills, experience and judgement you need with our leading CPAs and tax
attorneys.
Development:
Our team helps with the development/formation process. We consult you
on the best structure for your investment management business and factor
in the latest and most appropriate tax strategies to meet your needs as
well as your investors' needs too. We help design and set up your hedge
fund and investment management business. GreenTraderFunds is not a law
firm and it does not practice law. Our outside attorneys at Investment
Law Group prepare all the related documents and consult you on the latest
regulatory strategies.
Accounting
and administration: Our CPAs provide reconciliation for trades,
cash, portfolio position, portfolio valuation, dividends, interests, corporate
actions and custodial capital accounts. We prepare monthly accounting
based on needs for investment management business, managed account reporting
for managed accounts, and monthly NAV reports on timely basis. Our reports
include a performance record. For some incubator fund clients, we lower
our price by performing quarterly rather than monthly accounting. But
that's not all; click
here to learn more.
Compliance
and operations: Most hedge funds need a compliance manual and
our attorneys have the experience and capability to set up your compliance
program and help execute it efficiently and effectively.
Bottom Line
Start-ups, incubator funds, smaller hedge funds and new investment advisers
may have big needs, but they also have smaller pocket books (preferring
to safeguard their funds for trading capital). Leading service providers
to larger hedge funds simply charge way too much and they don't match
up well with smaller entrepreneurs. As we proved with small business traders
and managers since our inception in 1983, we are the opposite. Our entire
company and offerings are designed for the special needs of traders and
adviser entrepreneurs. As attested by media interviews, articles, and
customer testimonials, we have the most highly regarded professionals
on our roster. By specializing in investment management and traders, our
group is able to lead the industry in ideas and strategies, design best
practices and tools, and pass on those values and savings to our customers.
Caring for our customers' many needs over the long-term outweighs any
single project and profits.
Please call
us soon or e-mail us at hedgefunds@greencompany.com.
We hope you give GreenTraderFunds an opportunity to be part of your success
in an investment management business.
Ready to get started? Purchase a consultation with us here.
We look forward to working with you soon.
Sincerely,
Robert A. Green, CEO
GreenTraderFunds
