“Managers need to start with assets of a half-to-one-billion-dollars in today’s (hedge fund) industry.” David Saunders, co-founding managing director of K2 Advisors (photo by Doug Goodman for Pensions & Investments) Read more »
Specialized Equity Hedge Funds Preferred By FERI
By Tao Wan, Senior Analyst at FERI AG Although the global equity indices have been marching higher with low volatility until lately, it has been tough for many Equity Long/Short managers starting late March as the rotation of growth to value began. As a whole the Equity L/S managers have not been able to […] Read more »
Hidden Risks In Large Institutional Hedge Fund Managers
By Peter Douglas of GFIA I recently chaired a Bloomberg discussion, targeted at small or growing hedge funds, offering advice on what investors are looking for. My panellists all had at least 10 years’, and in one case 20 years’ experience in the hedge fund or institutional asset management industry, in senior positions. The […] Read more »
Exploiting The Hunger Premium Of Emerging Managers
By Najy Nasser, Chief Investment Officer of HeadStart Advisers Ltd According to the English proverb: ‘hunger is the best sauce.’ In investment terms, those with the most to gain from strong performance, will work hardest to achieve it. Hunger can, therefore, be one of the best sources of return. When it comes to harvesting the […] Read more »
Investors Should Carry Out Their Own Research On Smaller Hedge Fund Managers
By Donald A. Steinbrugge,Managing Partner Agecroft Partners, LLC Average hedge fund performance has been mediocre at best over the past five years, which is not surprising because most of the asset flows have been concentrated in a small percentage of firms with the largest assets under management. Many of these firms have morphed into […] Read more »
Five Things The Seahawks Super Bowl Win Could Teach A Hedge Fund Manager
By Simon Kerr, Principal of Enhance Consulting 1. The team with the fewest errors is often the winner at the biggest occasions in sport. In this year’s Super Bowl the Denver Broncos turned the ball over five times, conceded a safety from the first snap, and threw two interceptions. It is hard for a […] Read more »
An Allocators View Of An Effective First Meeting For Hedge Fund Marketing
By Shaunak Amin & Joe Peta of Novus Partners, INC. “Bud Fox, I look at a hundred deals a day. I choose one.” –Gordon Gekko, after a pitch from a prospective broker Despite the hilariously outdated technology props and some extinct jargon, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is still revered by financial industry insiders. Even today, […] Read more »
Why Emerging Hedge Fund Managers Outperform
Andrew Beer, Chief Executive Officer of Beachhead Capital, wrote an excellent research note recently affirming that the widely known conception that emerging hedge fund managers outperform their more seasoned and larger peers was supported by the available data. This graphic is the nub of the explanation of why this can happen in the case of […] Read more »
Momentum in Asset Growth is Vital in Successfully Raising Hedge Fund Assets
By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Partner Agecroft Partners Many small to mid-sized hedge funds become frustrated because their firm’s assets under management are not growing and they believe the market is biased against them based on their asset size. They are constantly hearing that a majority of assets are flowing to the largest hedge […] Read more »
FACTA and AIFMD Constraining Smaller Hedge Fund Manager Growth
By Peter Douglas, GFIA We recently were asked to source a shortlist of established, differentiated, Asian boutique hedge funds, for a distribution company. The deal between the distribution company and the funds, if concluded, would be that the distribution company would make introductions to European institutions, in return for a fee share. We anticipated that […] Read more »