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First FoF launched allocating to women-managed hedge funds, research reveals opportunities

Monday, November 06, 2006

Pomegranate Capital is a New York-based fund of hedge funds manager that seeks to generate significant asset appreciation and preserve capital by investing in a diversified blend of hedge fund strategies, including long/short equity, event-driven, special situations, distressed, credit, convertible arbitrage and systematic relative value.

Pomegranate Capital has identified a market inefficiency that exists in the hedge fund industry: many women portfolio managers have generated superior returns with less volatility than their peers, yet many of these managers tend to be managing smaller pools of capital. Utilizing a rigorous investment process that includes both qualitative and quantitative elements, Pomegranate intents to capitalize on this inefficiency by constructing a diversified portfolio of women managers in the U.S., Europe and Asia to achieve excess returns.

Pomegranate has built the first database of women managers and has identified over 250 funds that are managed by women, investing in a broad range of strategies. When I met founding partner Susan Shaffer Solovay and her team last week in New York, she said she encourages female hedge fund managers to contact the firm at info@pomcap.com. I may add that investors may also be interested to take a look, the historical pro forma performance on a net base does in fact outperform the average fund of fund.

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