fund management

non-custodial · security · education

After every exchange collapse, the same lesson gets re-learned at terrible expense: the risk wasn't the trading, it was the custody. 'Non-custodial' automation means your capital never leaves your own exchange account — and knowing how to verify that claim is the first skill of automated trading.

The Fluxy Team · 31 Aug 2026

crypto-funds · infrastructure · fund-management

The tools built for equity funds quietly break on crypto. Markets that never close, funding payments that dwarf the spread, fragmented liquidity across a dozen venues, and data that arrives messy — these aren't edge cases, they're the terrain. A fund platform built for crypto from the ground up isn't a nice-to-have; it's the difference between a strategy that works on paper and one that works at 3am on a Sunday.

The Fluxy Team · 28 Jul 2026

emerging-managers · fund-management · career

Making money on your own account proves your edge. It doesn't prove you can run a fund. The gap between the two is everything that has nothing to do with trading — investor accounting, fair valuation, fee structures, audit trails, multi-account operations. Here's an honest map of the chasm, and why the operational half is the half that actually stops most people.

The Fluxy Team · 29 Jul 2026

fees · high-water-mark · investor-alignment

Fund fees have a reputation for being where managers quietly take more than they earned. They don't have to be. The high-water mark and the hurdle are elegant, century-old ideas that align a manager's payday with their investors' gains. Here's what they actually mean, why they matter, and why getting them exactly right is a trust decision, not an accounting detail.

The Fluxy Team · 2 Aug 2026