Institutional Investors Swap Funds of Funds

Institutional investors are swapping funds of funds for direct hedge fund investments. Preqin surveyed 50 global investors from a wide range of institutions including public and private sector pension funds asset managers, insurance companies, banks, foundations,...

Hedge Fund Manager Due Diligence

By all accounts, hedge fund investors – always a skeptical lot – have been more circumspect about their chosen fund managers since the Madoff scandal – and the Stanford, Kerviel, Cioffi and Tannin, Greenwood and Walsh, Cosmo, Petters, Nami, Traynor, Jones, and...

Hedge Fund Interview with Laurent Favre

Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with Laurent Favre, CEO of Alternative Soft, a quantitative hedge fund software solution for portfolio construction, funds selection and tactical asset allocation using hedge fund strategies. In the interview we cover changes...

Hedge Fund Marketing at Core of EU Fund Controversy

Effectively US hedge funds will find it next to impossible to market into the European Union. When two Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed in June and July of 2007, the resulting questioning of the safety of investing in hedge funds created an initial political...
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