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Exploring the FoHFs universe (part 1) – the Swiss winners

Monday, October 08, 2007

Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: What makes a fund of hedge funds successful? Why should you invest in a FoHFs? What are the recent developments in the FoHFs space? These questions will be tackled in our Monday series with exclusive interviews from the best managers in the FoHFs universe.

We start with three Swiss managers, all of whom winners at the recent Banco hedge fund awards ceremony (see previous Opalesque exclusive article here). They all gave Opalesque some insight into their differing investment processes: one manager will want to like the person behind the hedge fund, another will focus on the appropriate spread between core and aggressive investments and another one will rely on diversification on a grand scale.

Reichmuth: People first, performance last Dr. Ricardo Cordero, fund manager at Lucerne-based Reichmuth & Co (corporate website), described his investment principles to Opalesque.

“In our manager selection process, we always focus on three main factors: 1) people, 2) strategy, 3) performance. With regards to the first factor, we want to know with whom we are investing, who the ultimate decision maker is. In the hedge fund industry, many of the money manage......................

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