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March 31, 2011 - Optcapital receives 2010 SAS 70 Type II (Report on Controls Placed in Operation and Tests of Operating Effectiveness) audit report.
January 20, 2011 – Optcapital Receives the Rising Star Award at GAIM USA 2011
"Optcapital is a company whose innovative investment ideas have the potential to have a huge impact on the way the hedge fund industry does business going forward," Amanda Rodrigues, Event Director, GAIM USA
January 2011 – Investments & Pensions Europe
"Just Rewards," Martin Steward considers some imaginative proposals for alignment of interests.
November 10, 2010 - Bank of America Hedge Fund Seed Investor Conference, New York City
Panel discussion on "Best Practices and Infrastructure", an overview of Fund Alignment Rights
November 3, 2010 - AR Symposium, New York City
Fund Alignment Rights: the Next Generation of Hedge Fund Incentive Compensation Panel discussion moderated by Thom Young, Managing Partner, Optcapital, LLC for over 250 hedge fund managers and investors. Panelists included:
Optcapital President, Thom Young, framing industry compensation misalignment and why leading institutional investors and hedge fund managers are embracing FARs
Utah Retirement Systems Assistant Investment Counsel, Jonathan Koerner, discussing the economic benefits of FARs for Utah’s retirement plan
Executive Benefits Attorney from K&L Gates, Jim Earle, addresses the case for using fair market value options to compensate hedge fund managers
CEO of Cadogan Management, John Trammell, discusses investor's willingness for longer lock-ups when managers align with FARs
September 28, 2010 - Institutional Investor’s Alpha Hedge 16th Annual Institutional Investment Conference, San Francisco
Keynote Address - Fund Alignment Rights (FAR®s), presented by Larry Powell, Deputy CIO, Utah Retirement Systems
August, 2010 - Benefits Law Journal Vol. 23, No. 3, Autumn 2010
Executive Compensation, "Compensating Hedge Fund Managers with Stock Options: A New Path to Alignment of Interests with Investors," James E. Earle, partner and executive benefits specialist, K&L Gates
April 16, 2010 - Opalesque publishes "Alignment of interest is the buzzword -- fund appreciation rights platform Optcapital looks to bridge the gap between managers and institutions" by Kirsten Birchoff
March 26, 2010 - Pensions & Investments publishes "Closing the Pension Funding Gap" by Rick Ehrhart, JD, President & CEO, Optcompanies
November 11, 2009 - The Hedge Fund Law Report, Volume 2, No. 45
"Hedge Fund Managers Considering Fund Appreciation Rights Compensation Structure to Defer Tax on Performance Compensation and to Better Align Managers and Investor Incentives", Jennifer Banzaca
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