Notes from the most recent IMI Consultant Congress. Great speakers offering excellent insights. Common sense recommendations form important gate-keepers.

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Relevant quotes from industry leaders from last week’s Absolute Return Symposium.

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Useful insights from the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association Conference held in New York last week. Operational due diligence representatives from a major investment bank platform, seeder, pension fund board member and family office shared their due diligence dealbreakers.

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Andrew Saunders to speak at the 2009 Hedge Fund Business Operations Association Meeting. September 24-25.

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Valuable advice from alternative investment consultants to hedge funds on how to succeed in the “New New” marketing environment.

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Hedge Connection has been hitting the conference circuit pretty hard the last few weeks. Emerging Manager – Opal, Family Office – IIR, Hedge World Spring Service Provider’s conference where’ yours truly spoke on a marketing panel.
I will be sending some quotes and commentary from these events over the next week.
The best quote from the three [...]

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Andrew Saunders to participate on marketing panel at 2009 Hedgeworld Spring HEdge Fund Services Event. June 18, 2009 2:30 PM.

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Whether by choice or by the lack thereof, hedge fund managers are attending events to market their funds directly. They are getting in the game and focusing on this core business function only to find it more competitive then ever.

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I recently attended a hedge fund conference. In a sign of the times the format was a half day and presented in an austere, no frills environment…coincidentally the same room where I was married but that is a subject for another day.

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The Absolute Return Symposium held on November 19-20 is one of the better events of the year – the speaking faculty is high caliber and the audience is comprised of a number of end investors.
 
Consensus from the investors including Gleacher, JPMorgan Alternative Investment and Joel Katzman was that 1.  the larger hedge funds will get larger [...]

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