Cap-intro starting to show signs of life.

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Reuters is hosting a hedge fund and private equity forum in London, Singapore and New York. I can’t yet figure out whether it is virtual or happening in real time as it has escaped my conference net. Maybe someone can help.
 
Regardless, interesting news from the from CQS and Polar Capital.
 
CQS reports:
Client withdrawals from Britain-based hedge fund CQS [...]

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Hedge Fund Assets Could Fall Two-Thirds: UBP 
 
Hedgworld, Pascal Schmuck, Martin de Sa’Pinto
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I emphasize the final two paragraphs which I find interesting. UBP is/was the largest FOF in the world. They are consolidating managers. One imagines that this is going on across the board.
 
UBP said in the future it would only invest in funds [...]

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A marketing challenge for all hedge fund marketers  is how to benchmark performance of a hedge fund strategy.
 
We have all seen strategies that are allegedly non-correlated benchmark against the S&P or Russell 2k, the Barcleh AG (hat tip to Dealbreaker.com), however, how useful is this?
 
There are hedge fund indices out there, but these cover big [...]

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I pulled out  a couple excerpts below from an obvious but informative piece that recently came across the transom. the email from Hedgeworld hit my inbox as I was hanging up with a Geneva based investor member. A fund of fund that creates portfolios for private banks he felt like he was doing all the [...]

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Today we issued an important announcement. Not only a significant development for our company but also a significant development in the rapid development and transformation of the hedge fund services sector.
 
As the major prime brokerages cut down on services to clients, specifically smaller funds, our partnership with Lighthouse offers their clients a turn-key solution.
 
 
 
Lighthouse Prime [...]

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From:
Hedge funds to chase the wealthy.
Wealth Bulletin
Stephanie Baum
 
Insightful article on two important hedge fund investor constituencies.
 
I will attempt to summarize:
1. HNW and family offices were some of the first investors in hedge funds
 
2. HFs started to target larger pockets of money from FOFs, endowments, foundations and ultimately pension funds at the expense of their HNW/Family [...]

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