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Tages Capital, Omni Partners take on the emerging manager opportunity

Monday, May 18, 2015

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Pierre Crama
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

A couple of hedge fund managers at the recent Opalesque London Roundtable discussed the seeding or partnership opportunities with emerging fund managers, which they are starting to take advantage off.

UCITS and offshore seeding vehicles The seeding opportunity is here, as there is "a considerable flow of talent with whom we are in dialogue to assess their business propositions," says Pierre Crama, Deputy Head of Operational Due Diligence at Tages Capital. "A unique differentiating factor at Tages is the ability to offer a seed ticket to launch a new product or a replication of an existing fund in a different structure."

London and Milan-based Tages Capital is primarily focused on tailor-made alternative multi-manager hedge fund and UCITS solutions. It merged its fund of hedge fund business with La Française, a French fund of funds business, last year. Recently, the firm launched a frontier market fund of hedge funds, and a vehicle to seed or provide acceleration capital to some emerging managers. It has already seeded three managers in the last eight mon......................

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