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 »
Changed Dynamics of Hedge Fund Industry Shown in Cayman Data
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority produces regular statistics on the numbers of active financial businesses in its jurisdiction. Offshore banking and reinsurance are significant to the Cayman Islands, but the Cayman Islands are also home to more offshore hedge funds (Cayman Island Mutual Funds) than any […] Read more »
Activist Hedge Funds – Book Extract
By Alex Gavrish, CEO of Etalon Investment Research and author of “Wall Street: Back To Basics” The following is a chapter from Alex Gavrish’s book “Wall Street: Back to Basics”*. Two of the three case studies in this chapter on Activist Investors have been included. Chapter 4: Activist Investors Activist shareholder activity has […] Read more »
KKR Looks to Grow Prisma As Its Consolidated Hedge Fund Platform
By Hedge Fund Insight Staff Quoted PE behemoth KKR & Co LP is looking to significantly expand its hedge fund related businesses. KKR started in hedge funds by bringing over the 8-man equity strategies team from Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Americas in mid 2011. Then last year KKR bought $8bn fund of hedge funds firm […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Managers Are Increasingly Accommodative On Fees – Towers Watson Survey
From The Towers Watson Global Alternatives Survey 2013* The key trends for hedge funds identified in the survey relate to both single manager hedge funds and funds of hedge funds (FoHFs). The FoHF industry continues to adjust to the new normal, with FoHFs increasingly working with investors in some form of customised or bespoke manner. […] Read more »
Laurentia Successfully Dances With The Markets
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Neil Meadows categorises global macro managers into two types – tactical managers and thematic managers. Classic tactical managers would be the Palindrome (George Soros), Mike Novogratz of Fortress and George Papamarkakis of North Asset Management. Examples of thematic managers given by Meadows are Guillaume Fonkenell of Pharo […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Marketing Using the Internet
By Mauro D’Andrea, and Simon Kerr Statistics are some of most powerful tools in the marketing world. Write a statement, and everyone who reads it will think it’s just your opinion (or your experience). Add stats to that statement and everyone will recognize what you said as an objective truth. Stats are very powerful […] Read more »
The Hedge Fund Year So Far In Two Graphics
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight, As for any period since the end of 2009, so far this year the hedge fund industry mostly has been about what has happen in North America. That is where the managers who are attracting most assets are based, and that is where the flows coming into […] Read more »
Three Things Every Hedge Fund Must Know About Marketing In The Post JOBS Act Era
From www.streetid.com Are financial institutions — namely hedge funds — prepared to market themselves to investors when the JOBS Act rules are issued in the next six to 12 months? Will Thompson, co-founder and CEO of HedgeComm (a marketing and PR agency that focuses on the alternative investment industry), has found that few hedge funds have […] Read more »