By Hedge Fund Insight staff Recent analysis of EM hedge fund staff registered with the UK’s financial regulator, the FCA, shows some clear winners. Staff are a lagging indicator not a leading indicator, reflecting confidence of management of a hedge fund firm that things have gone well enough that the firm can afford to add […] Read more »
Pressures to Adapt in Ernst & Young Hedge Fund Survey
From Ernst & Young This is the Executive Summary of the 2016 Global Hedge Fund and Investor Survey Shrinking returns and escalating investor demands. Downward pressure on fees and unrelenting requirements to have robust operating models. This year, competing forces came together to culminate in the perfect storm. In a year marked by lackluster performance and rising investor expectations, one inevitably […] Read more »
Meaningful Work and Relationships: A Conversation with Ray Dalio
From Milken Institute: Ray Dalio in discussion with Robert Kegan of Harvard Graduate School of Education (59 minutes in total) A radical approach to people development: Radical truth (including mistakes and weaknesses) and radical transparency (tape everything, make the tapes available to everyone). A meritocratic approach. Millennials would find Bridgewater a perfect place to work […] Read more »
Talent, PB Fees, and Middle Office Outsourcing Highlighted in E&Y HF Survey
By Hedge Fund Insight staff One of the public services Hedge Fund Insight provides is mastication: HFI will chew over a major piece of work to give you the highlights. Each year Ernst & Young publish a Global Hedge Fund & Investor Survey*. As usual there were some interesting and surprising results in the […] Read more »
Organising Research & Staff Development in Equity Hedge – A Podcast with Stuart Mitchell
An interview with Managing Partner and CIO STUART MITCHELL of SW Mitchell Capital The interview focuses on staff recruitment and development, and how investment research is conducted at the firm. How do you develop your investment staff? What do you look for in a recruit on your investment side? How do you remunerate them? […] Read more »
Bridgewater’s Leadership In Building Firm Culture & Commitment To Training
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Increasingly, large hedge fund groups have to be structured in how they address staffing issues. Nearly a year ago Citi Prime Finance commissioned research for a paper titled “Exploring the Concept and Characteristics of People Alpha” – the result of having surveyed 24 large and medium-sized […] Read more »