Hedge Fund Law Report Publishes Akin Gump Series on Automated Trading Strategies
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The Hedge Fund Law Report has published the two-part series “Managing the Machine: How Hedge Fund Managers Can Examine and Document Their Automated Trading Strategies,” written by three members of the litigation practice at Akin Gump: Douglas Rappaport, partner, Patrick Mott, counsel, and Elizabeth Rosen, associate.
The articles examine compliance procedures involving quantitative/systematic trading, including some high-level steps for legal and compliance professionals “to jumpstart the process of designing and implementing a control framework tailored to a hedge fund manager’s particular [automated trading] program that will stand up to regulatory scrutiny.”
The authors suggest the following steps, which they describe as “a jumping-off point for legal and compliance personnel to think about more specialized, finely tailored compliance policies”:
- conduct a thorough assessment of the risks associated with a firm’s AT strategies;
- document the strategy and design of the AT system;
- establish protocols for continuous monitoring of trading activity;
- create a written policy framework for reviewing, testing and documenting new code or changes to existing code; and
- review disclosures for consistency with practice.
To read both article installments, please click here.
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