{"id":45553,"date":"2014-12-19T07:20:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45553"},"modified":"2014-12-19T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:24:06","slug":"jjobs-act-new-platforms-for-building-hedge-fund-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/jjobs-act-new-platforms-for-building-hedge-fund-reputation.html","title":{"rendered":"Building Hedge Fund Websites After The JOBS Act, Twitter, LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45554\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hedge_funds_on_twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45554\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hedge_funds_on_twitter.png\" alt=\"Hedge Funds On Twitter\" width=\"332\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hedge_funds_on_twitter.png 332w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hedge_funds_on_twitter-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hedge Funds On Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Monthly hedge fund mentions on Twitter recently reached a high of 80,000 Tweets, and have not fallen below 40,000 in the last two years, Thomas Walek, President of Peppercomm said of the\u00a0$3 trillion hedge fund industry in a Q&amp;A with AIMA.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>66% of 2014\u2019s largest 292 hedge funds are on LinkedIn, and 10% are on Twitter. Of these, six hedge funds post on LinkedIn at least once a month and seven hedge funds Tweet at least 10 times a month.<\/li>\n<li>Among the largest 285 global hedge funds in 2013, 14% launched websites in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Among the 185 global hedge funds with $1 billion\u2013$5 billion in assets, 23% had websites in 2013. By June of 2014, an additional 39 funds launched websites and 11 more moved from a closed site to a more open site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Reputation is built on a careful calculus of transparency, engagement and honesty.\u00a0That\u2019s happening now as hedge funds open up and take a few steps in that direction.\u00a0It\u2019s healthy and it\u2019s good for the future of the industry.&#8221; Walek said.\u00a0Media mentions of hedge funds are projected to reach record levels above 100,000 in 2014, up nearly five-fold over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. 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We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Monthly hedge fund mentions on Twitter recently reached a high of 80,000 Tweets, and have not fallen below 40,000 in the last two years, Thomas Walek, President of Peppercomm said of the\u00a0$3 trillion hedge fund industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16043,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-technology","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45561,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45553\/revisions\/45561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}