The response to last week’s posting mostly from members of the traditional asset management managers was fabulously interesting to me. I received a number of emails with comments suggesting that I was crazy; others thought I was insane, or thought I was ridiculous (most of them probably worked at the
Late yesterday, I was cleaning up the old inbox and saw an article that ran on The Street.com with a headline which grabbed my attention. It was about two of my favorite subjects– hedge funds and the Red Sox. As most of you know, I can talk and write until
This early morning while working at my desk, reading the wires and the blogs to make sure I was up on the day’s news, I heard from my trusty television – which is tuned automatically to CNBC and the Discovery Channel – the “true” difference between hedge funds and private
Over the last week or so, I have received a number of questions asking what is the most important thing to do when launching a fund. My answer has been and always will be the same – START. It takes a lot of guts, some glory and a fair bit
There are two threshold issues everybody faces when they consider launching a hedge fund. The first is the decision to go out on their own and break free of the corporate ties that bind them; and the second is the choice of services providers to get their fund up and
Mondays always begin with something. Today we have the Chrysler Group / Cerberus Capital Management deal which to me is another situation where the private equity and hedge fund managers have figured out a way to take advantage of poor management, scared unions and weak sales and turn it into
Yesterday, after spending a number hours setting up the blog, the first question came in. The question as a phone call from South Africa. This person, I will call him Mike to protect his identity, wanted to know how to get into the hedge fund business because like Willie Sutton,
Good morning. Welcome to HedgeAnswers the blog! The idea for this blog is to provide answers to questions people have about the hedge fund industry. Simply put, it is an “Ask the Expert” forum for you to find out, who, what, where and why’s of hedge funds. In the absence
