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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 with the best managers in the FoHFs universe.

Caliburn Capital Partners LLP is an institutional alternative asset management firm, majority owned by five partners with the financial backing of Mizuho International. Caliburn runs several FoHFs with strong theme-based top-down views:

Caliburn Strategic Fund (flagship) +18.5% YTD (Inception June 2006) Caliburn Greater China Fund +21.4% YTD (Inception April 2007) Caliburn Energy New Era Fund +3.84% YTD (Inception May 2007) Caliburn Global Inefficiencies Fund +0.5% YTD (Inception July 2007)

Caliburn has offices in London and Geneva, with a staff of 38 representing 15 nationalities, including 22 analysts. Tony Morrongiello, managing partner, talked to Opalesque about the reasons why it is a good time to invest in FoHFs:

Wrong stereotype: FoFs managers are not paid to take investment views We established Caliburn Capital Partners in early 2005 because we believed there was a genuine opportunity in the Fund of Fund industry to do things differently.

At Caliburn’s inception, industry convention dictated that FoF managers were not paid to take an investment view. That was the purview of hedge f......................

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