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Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: Why should you invest in a FoHFs? What are the recent developments in the FoHFs space? What makes a fund of hedge funds successful? These topics are explored in our Monday series on funds of funds.

New York-based RAS Capital Management’s FoHFs has just celebrated its first anniversary and is planning a new launch in January. RAS also has an affiliate office in Mumbai. Mr. Rob Rahbari, RAS’ managing director, explains to Opalesque why niche FoHFs and large FoHFs are the most likely to survive and gives an overview of the investment mechanisms of the RAS India FoFs which is solely focused on India.

The good fortune of large FoHFs and niche FoHFs “It looks to me like the industry is moving towards either larger FoHFs or the smaller niche FoHFs; the ones that are in between might either get bought out by a large group or experience trouble competing or getting started. FoHFs that are small enough are nimble in finding new managers and younger managers and do not have the pressure to allocate lots of capital to each manager. Large FoHFs have larger infrastructure and personnel with experience, as well as strong relationships with managers due to their larger investment size, so those things enable them to succeed. But mid-sized FoHFs have to compete with larger ones and cannot necessarily distinguish themselves from the smaller ones that are able to invest in smaller......................

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