Greetings offshorefundsblog readers. Phil and I have just returned from attending
the inaugural Cap Intro West Conference in San Francisco last week.
We were both honoured to be invited to speak at the conference: I
joined a number of friends presenting a Private Equity and Hedge
Fund Boot Camp for start up and emerging fund managers while Phil,
somehow, managed to have the audience in stitches while he detailed
the ins and outs of AIFMD on his panel on Navigating Fund Marketing
Rules and Regulations.
As you might expect at a January conference, a lot of time was
spent during the breakouts looking at the tea leaves to determine
what 2017 might hold for us. I am very pleased to report that the
mood was generally optimistic. Some of this may have due to the
Trump administration's intended policies to boost the US
economy and some of this may have been due to the generous pours of
the bar staff at the evening cocktails!
