GAIM Conference

Next week is the GAIM USA 2007 hedge fund conference in Boca Raton, Florida. This is generally regarded as "the" big annual industry meeting.

Yours truly will be in attendance at the 3 day event and certainly hopes that  it will live up to its reputation. Lots of fund managers are slated to be there presumably presenting their latest investment ideas and stratagems. So that should be interesting - although of course I don't expect anything of a proprietary nature will be formally disclosed.

However, being a legal and regulatory sort (and not a money manager) I will especially be interested in such topics to be discussed as model industry regulations, the latest trends in hedge fund fee structures, and dispute resolution for those cases when things do go sour. These are sort of "hot" regulatory topics in the industry.

In my upcoming blogs, with full respect given to any confidential "off the record" matters, I hope to discuss some of what I have learned at the conference.

In the meantime, while at the conference, I might even do a video upload to You Tube of me with a spot on my sense of each days events  from my hotel room in Boca. (Hmm "boca" = "mouth", "raton" = "mouse" - there's meaning in that somewhere.)

Anyhow, it should be exciting (for me anyhow :)).