Hedgeworld Conference Panel Recap

Recap of Oct. 6, 2009 Hedgeworld panel on “Pitching Investors”

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Changing Hedge Fund Investor Base

Hedge funds attracting more institutions, fewer private investors.

- Process-driven investing, regulatory burdon, method of access all lead to a level of sophistication for direct investing or through FOFs.

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Get Ready to Update the Database…Again

 
As if everyone’s database wasn’t already in tatters.  Today comes news of the expected consolidation wave that will roll-up the Swiss FOF industry.
 
In an article in Hedgeworld/Reuters, Martin de Sa’Pinto commented that the “you can get there from here” nature of the compensation structure will compell FOFs into one another’s arms.
 

“Many of Switzerland’s smaller fund [...]

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Required Reading – DB Hedge Fund Survey

Highlights from this year’s DB alternative investment survey.

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A word on humility and professionalism

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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What happens when 30% of 50% goes away?

While hard data on the hedge fund industry is hard to come by, it is commonly understood that 50% of single manager money comes from FOFs.
According to Hedgeworld, 30% of that 50% is gone, with significant implications for raising new capital. To name a few:
- consolidating positions
- knock-on redemptions
- legitimate concern over business viability
- limited [...]

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FOF’s respond to Swenson’s “evaluation” of their business

After a miserable 2008, the last thing FOF’s needed was David Swenson, CIO of the Yale endowment, one of the most respected endowment chiefs referring to them as,  “Fund of funds are a cancer on the institutional-investor world. they facilitate the flow of ignorant capital.”
After poor performance and the miserable Mr. Madoff, Swenson’s comments had [...]

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