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Financial Times reported this morning that the SEC was suing Philip Goldstein because of compliance issues surrounding his Bulldog Investors Hedge Fund website.

Phillip Goldstein, the activist fund manager who successfully blocked rules requiring hedge funds to register with US regulators, is being sued by officials in Massachusetts who claim he improperly marketed his funds to unqualified investors.

The complaint alleges Mr Goldstein’s Bulldog Investors and other related entities violated US securities regulations for private placements by failing to restrict access to “general advertising and offering materials” on its hedge fund website, according to a statement by William Galvin, secretary of the commonwealth for Massachusetts.

Mr Goldstein did not re-turn a call seeking comment.

“If the regulators were to do an extensive search of public internet sites for hedge funds and related entities, they would no doubt find a whole host of violations,'’ said one hedge fund lawyer. He added that many hedge fund companies were unclear as to what was allowed.

Mr Goldstein and Bulldog Investors failed to control access to fund information that should have been available only to password-holders screened by fund managers, according to the complaint.

A disclaimer on a Bulldog Investors website said users must agree that information it contained did not constitute a solicitation, according to Mr Galvin’s statement. Such a disclaimer, it added, did “not constitute an appropriate or adequate control over a publicly accessible website that displays advertising and/or offering materials for securities”.

Citing an interview with Mr Goldstein, Bloomberg said the information in question that Bulldog provided to an individual was given based on a misrepresentation of the person’s intentions.

Mr Goldstein scored a big win against the Securities and Exchange Commission last year when he won a lawsuit challenging the right of the regulator to require hedge fund advisers to register with it. The rules were thrown out as a result.

This lawsuit re-enforces the necessity of fully compliant websites, something that the HedgeCo Website Creation team has made a priority of from day one.

We are in the process of setting up a compliance section on this website which will serve as a document and knowledge repository for anyone interested in the exact process for creating a fully compliant Hedge Fund website.

The HedgeCo Website team, is available at all times to answer questions regarding Hedge Fund Website compliance issues.
Contact us at: 561 835 8690

I received this press-release in my inbox today. I’m very happy to have worked with Keith and Talia and wish them the best with their new website.

GEM Capital is pleased to announce the launch of its new website – www.gemcapital.com.

Designed to be a “go-to” place to learn about strategies offering tax-efficient investing, www.gemcapital.com contains information on the following:

• Tax Efficient Investing: Objective evaluations of alternative investment opportunities offering tax-free income
• Investment Solutions: Information on services offered by GEM Capital
• Relevant News and Events:  Listing of industry events and news articles

Membership is free, and required to access sections of the site that offer detailed information on municipal bond arbitrage, traditional high-quality municipal bonds, high-yield municipal bonds as well as specific information pertaining to services offered by GEM Capital. 

Our aim is to provide education and investment solutions to individuals interested in tax-efficient investing. The first two sections of this website, “About GEM Capital” and “Tax Efficient Investing” contain general information on tax efficient investing, and encompass all that GEM offers. The remaining sections of the site provide information specific to one investment solution — municipal bond arbitrage.

Please contact GEM with any questions or for additional information.

Sincerely,

The GEM Capital Team

GEM Capital, LLC

83 Beach Road
Belvedere, CA  94920
p: (415) 563-3844
info@gemcapital.com

… are emails from satisfied customers.

I’ve just updated our Hedge Fund Website testimonials page with comments from some of the recent projects that we’ve completed.

It was great working with Neal Goyal on the website for his hedge fund Blue Horizon Asset Management. We are in the final phases of rolling out the most recent project we’ve been working together on.

Roberts Capital was an interesting project in that it differed from many of the other projects that we completed.

Austin Roberts was very clear about his vision for the website, and speaking for the entire Hedge Fund Website team I can say that it was a pleasure working with him, and we wish him and his firm the best in the coming year.

We will keep our Testimonial page updated with client comments as they come in.

Capstone Business Credit, LLC is a New York City-based venture merchant banking firm that provides alternative financing to firms involved in the domestic and international trade of finished consumer and industrial products.

Capstone has been in business since 1993, and the existing website was launched in 2003. With the focus of the website changing, and the business growing Capstone needed to overhaul their website to reflect their new provides a number of service to their clients.

The needs were fairly straightforward

• Easy to update and maintain
• Easy to embed various media within any page
• Provide a Client Login with a protected client area
• Search Engine Friendly with the ability to change meta-tags on individual pages (more…)

We’ve been here for a while now (check out the hedge fund web design portfolio for some of the evidence) but yesterday we did our official lauch, and a quick look at our stats shows a nice spike in our hits!

Thanks to the initial press release we’ve already had a flood of interest in our product. I’ll try to keep the blog updated with the release annoucements, but at any given time we have between eight and ten sites in the pipeline. With an average of 2-3 site launches a week, I have a fair amount of real work to take care of and blogging may suffer.

While I’m here, I’ll put out a call for designers. We are in the market to hire a full time designer to work in our West Palm Beach office. Please contact jobs@hedgecowebsites.com for more information.

David W. Tice & Associate, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor firm which specializes in Prudent Bear mutual funds as well as other privately offered hedge funds. The company website, prudentbear.com is well establish in its field, but with the introduction of five new hedge funds, the site needed to be extended in order to comply with the regulatory restrictions involved with Hedge Fund websites.

Before our work began, we had a components for multiple funds into one framework. However, due to the unique aspects of this scenario (discussed later) we had to implement a unique solution.

There were several unique aspects to this project:

• Five Hedge Funds to manage
• Two Offshore funds, three onshore.
• Two funds available for Qualified Clients (3c7 Investors) and three funds for Accredited Investors (3c1 investors)

(more…)

This is a short annoucement to welcome Aaron Connelly to the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Websites team.

AaronC (founder of ACJavascripts.com and Cytech-Services.com) has been working with us for the past few months providing his expert services to help with the influx of work which we have had. However, due to the increased in business preceeding the official launch of HedgeCoWebsites.com we are taking him on full time. AaronC will be working in our deployment and support department, and will be working with our clients in the final phases of deploying their Hedge Fund websites.

We look forward to working with AaronC, and if we’re lucky we might even convince him to drop in here to blog every now and then!
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