HEDGE FUND NEWS

HedgeCo.net - G Squared Group Asset Management has teamed up with hedge fund services provider VanthedgePoint Group LL by purchasing a 10% minority stake and is launching a fund of hedge fundcomprised solely of its emerging manager clients.

“By partnering with VanthedgePoint our idea is to greatly reduce the number one risk regarding investments in emerging managers: operational risk,” said Gualtiero Giori, managing partner of G Squared. The new vehicle, White Hill Fund, will invest exclusively in early-stage emerging hedge fund clients of VanthedgePoint Securities, the broker/dealer arm of VanthedgePoint Group. The fund will commence operations on May 1.

VanthedgePoint serves as a prime broker dealer, providing stock trading clearance and loans to small to midsize long/short equity hedge funds, with assets of over $1 billion, launching a fund of emerging hedge funds makes sense because larger pension funds typically have restrictions on investing more than 10% of their capital in any one fund.

“This allows us to offer our clients not only the potential outperformance typically demonstrated by emerging managers, but also a structure whereby they can track new talent while avoiding concentration risk and minimizing non-investment due-diligence work.” said Giori.

Alex Akesson
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HedgeCo.Net
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