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IPAF's new representative in Luxembourg

November 2014

Following the recent opening of the IPAF office in the Cayman Islands, IPAF is now pleased to announce the appointment of Frédérique Bouchet as IPAF’s representative in Luxembourg.

Frédérique is a former hedge fund COO and a veteran of the prime brokerage industry. Her areas of expertise are operations and risk management. She joins the IPAF panel with effect from 1st November 2014 and her summary biography appears below.

The IPAF Group offers non-executive directors for hedge, real estate and private equity funds. Each IPAF panel…

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IPAF opens Cayman office

September 2014

The IPAF Group is delighted to announce the opening of an office in the Cayman Islands; IPAF (Cayman) Ltd will be operational with effect from 1st September 2014.

IPAF (Cayman) Ltd’s independent directors will offer the same services as IPAF (UK) Ltd: non-executive directors for hedge, real estate and private equity funds. Each IPAF panel member has significant hands-on experience of working in the alternatives industry and has a particular specialist area of focus, including front office, regulation, legal, administration, operations, risk management, valuation and asset…

The Hedge Fund Journal

May 2012

Corporate Governance - a few questions and suggested answers on goose sauce..

A great deal of ink has been spilt recently on the subject of hedge fund boards and corporate governance generally. The Weavering case put the fear of God into the industry (well, that was surely the Cayman judiciary’s intention) and the FT article in November 2011 apparently came as a total surprise to many, who were “scandalised” by the fact that some offshore hedge funds had directors who sat on literally hundreds of boards. Where on earth has everybody been? This has been the status quo for years and…

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Views on Corporate Governance – as published in Kinetic Partners October 2013 bulletin

October 2013

Corporate Governance has become a hot topic in the hedge fund industry and it is almost certainly about to become the next big thing for private equity and real estate funds.

The reason for this is not hard to understand. Having been a topic totally ignored for many years, its sudden discovery is like a religious conversion. Now everyone is a believer. The persecution of the old gods is in full swing and previous faiths will be outlawed.

Is this fair? Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. The industry norm for many years was to have (…

News from IPAF (UK) Ltd

October 2013

Caroline Hoare and Stella Murrell, the executive directors of IPAF (UK) Ltd, are delighted to announce the addition of three new panel directors.

Two of them are in Dublin: Barbara Healy and Victoria Parry. Nicola Meaden Grenham, also an Irish resident, is one of IPAF’s original panel members. This means that IPAF now has an extremely strong Irish team.

Barbara, former Global Head of Operations at JP Morgan HFS, is a chartered accountant with expertise in hedge fund administration and has significant experience of serving on fund boards. Victoria…

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