{"id":7,"date":"2008-02-13T11:14:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles2\/making-your-website-sec-compliant\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T15:44:08","slug":"making-your-website-sec-compliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/making-your-website-sec-compliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Making your hedge fund website SEC compliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet websites have to be careful with respect to general solicitations          and advertising, and thus must limit the content of the website in addition          to the people who have access to the site. <span class=\"td\">Hedge          fund advisers<\/span> using the Internet to market hedge funds are subject          to the same registration exemptions as they would be in engaging in private          offerings. If advisers and hedge funds do not adhere to the SEC guidance          on the use of the Internet in private offerings, they will not be able          to rely upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities          and Investment Acts.Operating a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgecowebsites.com\">hedge fund website<\/a>\u00a0must take into account these necessary rules:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hedcgecowebsites_icon.jpg\" alt=\"hedcgecowebsites_icon.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The site operates using a password.<\/li>\n<li> There is no reference on the home page to a specific fund.<\/li>\n<li> The internal pages of the website are available to only qualified            clients who filled out a questionnaire establishing that            fact.<\/li>\n<li> Prospective investors are required to wait thirty days after qualification            before investing in any fund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The genesis of these rules comes primarily from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgecowebsites.com\/lamp-compliance\">SEC No-Action letter by Lamp Technologies, Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet websites have to be careful with respect to general solicitations and advertising, and thus must limit the content of the website in addition to the people who have access to the site. Hedge fund advisers using the Internet to market hedge funds are subject to the same registration exemptions as they would be in engaging in private offerings. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,73,20],"tags":[10,6,15,60,67,9],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-articles","category-regulations","category-managing-a-hedge-fund","tag-compliance","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-hedge-fund-website","tag-regulation","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/hedgeducation\/hedge-fund-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}