Agecroft Partners has announced its leadoff Institutional Investor and Consultant panel for the Gaining the Edge – Hedge Fund Marketing Leadership Summit taking place in NYC on 28 April.
Panelist will include: Craig Bergstrom, CFA, Partner, Chief Investment Officer, Corbin Capital Partners; Andrew Fisch, Managing Director, Investcorp Investment Advisers LLC; Panayiotis Lambropoulos, CAIA, FRM, Portfolio Manager – Hedge Funds, Employees Retirement System of Texas; Chris Solarz, Managing Director, Head of Global Macro Strategies, Cliffwater, LLC; and Michael Weinberg, Senior Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist, Protégé Partners, LLC.
The hedge fund industry is dominated by assets from institutional investors and consultants and this panel will focus on how these investors select hedge funds. Some of the questions they will answer include: What are the most important metrics they consider when evaluating a hedge fund? What specific research process do institutional investors and consultants use to evaluate hedge funds? What are some examples of the best and worst marketing/clients service interactions you have seen? What hedge fund strategies are large institutional investors currently focused on?
The focus of Gaining the Edge – Hedge Fund Marketing Leadership Summit is: “How to Enhance the Asset Raising Capability of Your Hedge Fund Organisation” and will also feature most of the hedge fund industry’s top heads of capital introduction from the largest prime brokerage firms. All profits will be donated to non-profit organisations that benefit children. Hedge Funds Care and World Pediatric Project will be the main beneficiaries of the 2016 event.
