Welcome to HedgeCo Website Creation

It has been quiet on the HedgeCo Websites Blog over the last year. We apologize for the silence, but we have all been working hard on the latest and greatest version of the HedgeCo Hedge Fund website platform.

Some of the new featuers of Version 3 of the HedgeCo Website Platform are:

Multiple Fund Aware: The new version of the platform has built in support for multiple hedge funds. This means that when you add a new Fund to your product our team can have it enabled the same day.

Fund type categorization: As part of the multiple fund functionality, funds can be categorized based on type (master, feeder, currency class, manager previous track record, etc.)

New Graphs: Risk / Return Graphs, Performance during up/down index months, distribution of returns, and more.

Multiple Benchmark handling.

Email your investors using powerful templates.

New quantitative and return statistics

Permission based access settings.

This new version has already been implemented on dozens of sites ranging from Fund of Funds to CTA funds and more.

Tuttle Asset Management is a Registered Investment Advisor firm that works with multiple companies to market its products.

Prior to working with HedgeCo Website Creations, the existing website was a static html site which was updated with PDF files of the various products. There were several issues other than the website design that needed to be addressed in the relaunch.

1. Easy updating of content (no more HTML editing)

2. Ability to create textual versions of various products and display them alongside the PDF version

3. Flexibility to add new sections, products, and articles.

Because the scope of the project was substantially different than what we deliver with our Hedge Fund website platform, we chose ezPublish as the Content Management System on top of which we could build the Tuttle Asset Management site.

The HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team has experience with a variety of different Content Management System platforms.

1. Commercial Support: eZpublish has a large support team and will support the platform.

2. Solid Upgrade Path: eZsystems has a solid upgrade path for the eZpublish platform and this includes an exciting next-generation platform which is based on the upcoming PHP6.

3. Flexibility in design: The HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team prides itself in the ability to create designs that fit exactly to what our clients needs are. eZpublish does not place any restrictions on our ability to do this. The eZpublish platform also provides the programming tools that our programmers need in creating any customizations

4. Personal Experience: In the summer of 2006 I was able to attend the eZpublish Conference in Skein, Norway. During this time I was able to fully evaluate the product as well as interact with the core developers and management team.

Specifications

Following are some of the unique aspects of the Tuttle Asset Management website:

1. Dynamic graphical page headers

2. Flexible Category and Page creation

3. PayPal integration to sell specific products from the website

4. Integration with Google Maps

5. Technical glossary section with terms grouped in alphabetical order

6. Integration with external CRM solution

7. RSS Output

Design Phase

Once the project specification was laid out, we moved into the design phase. Surej was the contact during this phase and worked

Issues

During the deployment phase there were some issues which we faced that pushed back the schedule for the launch date of the site. These issues involved some sections of the specification which had not been given enough attention prior to the implementation phase. There were also issues where eZpublish provided features which were not needed by the website editing team at Tuttle Asset Management, and changes were made to ensure that the appropriate functionality was presented in a way that it would be of most use to the website team.

Initially in the deployment we planned to create highly customized templates for each of the products which were featured on the website, however after the initial round of revisions we settled on two distinct product templates. While customized templates offered a much greater amount of flexibility on our part, it made it difficult for the Tuttle Asset Management team to create new products, as we would need to provide the original designs. Having two templates gave the flexibility that was needed.

Deployment

One of the challenges faced by the deployment of the Tuttle Asset Management site involved the entry of historical data into the new website system. With over 200 specific articles in the “Morning Cup of Jo” section the converting them to a textual format is not a simple task. For the initial website launch the team focused on a few recent articles, and we will be adding documents for the site retroactively for historical purposes.

Finally I would like to thank Greg Collins and the other folks who patiently worked with us over both the design and website implementation cycles. This was a big project, and we’re happy with the results.

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

One of the issues which comes up fairly often has to do with the sending of mail through our servers and problems that people have with various ISPs (Internet Service Providers).

When setting up your mail accounts, you can use the SMTP (outgoing mail) servers which we provide with your account, these servers will take the form of “mail.example.com” example.com being the domain name at which your website resides. In some cases setting popular ISPs try to combat spam by restricting access to any SMTP server which they do not control.

This means that in many cases you will not be able to use our mail servers, but you have to point your SMTP server to the address provided by your ISP.

If you can’t access the SMTP server that we have provided you with, please check this list to see if your ISP is listed, or contact your ISP and ask them what SMTP server you should use.

… 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.

I will be speaking at the upcoming PHP|tek conference which will be taking place in Chicago on the 16th-18th of May.

I will be presenting two talks. The first talk will be on Search Engine Optimisation and Website Accessiblity. In this talk we will be examining several websites through the eyes of a search engine and a screen reader.

The second talk will be an extension of the talk I gave at ZendCon on Upgrading to PHP5 with Style. This presentations skips some of the extremely technical aspects of PHP5 and focuses on the new aspects and features available in PHP5. Both of my talks will be based on experience and knowledge gained while working with the HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website team.
This will be my first PHP|Architect conference, and I’m looking forward to meeting up with some of the other distinguished speakers who will be presenting as well.

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…)

A friend of mine was considering starting a blog and was in the market for a blogging platform. He has a fairly popular podcast and and is affiliated Podshow Inc. so one of the obvious options was to use the new blogging platform which is provided as Podshow’s Podshow PLUS platform.

Since we do work with optimizing the websites we create here at HedgeCo Hedge Fund Website Creation, he asked me to take a look at the blogging platform and see how it would preform against a platform like Blogger or a stand-alone application like Wordpress (which is the blogging engine that we use here at the HedgeCo Websites blog).
For this review, we will use Molly Hamacher, a character from Shadow Falls who has a fairly active blog as an example. I will mention “Google” a lot, this is only because this is the most popular search engine, my recommendations apply to all search engines however it is commonly accepted that if you optimizes for “Google” then the optimisations apply to other search engines as well.

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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.