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Hedge Fund Rising Stars revisited – How can smaller hedge fund firms compete with big brand names?

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

From Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: A macro fund manager comments on the state of smaller hedge firms and talks about his fund to Opalesque. The June edition of Institutional Investor News drew up a list of 20 ‘up-and-coming executives from around the world who are likely to impact the global hedge fund and alternative investment industry’; the rising stars in hedge funds (Full article). Mr. Lawrence Abele, managing partner at Auriel Capital Management, London, was one of them. “It is quite an honour,” he told Opalesque. “It is a very good publication.”

Auriel Capital Management (ACM) is a boutique asset management firm specializing in Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA). It was formed in April 2004 by Larry Abele, Anoosh Lachin and Asif Noor. The founding partners worked at Deutsche Asset Management together for four years managing GTAA portfolios for pension clients globally. Since launching with $20 million, ACM’s assets under management have grown to $655 million (June 07). The managing partners own 100% of the company. Pension plans and other institutional investors now form the majority of Auriel’s clients.

Institutional allocations go the best-know brands Mr. Abele had made the following comment in the Institutional Investor News: ‘As the separation of alpha and beta continues and the active part of active management i......................

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