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Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: AIG Investments has announced a joint venture partnership with Larch Lane Advisors, seeking to take advantage of opportunities in the current market environment. The partners believe that as talented investors and second and even third generation hedge fund managers launch new funds, current capital constraints have left many promising new managers without the ability to reach their capital raising targets. Together, AIG Investments and Larch Lane will look to seed start ups, young funds, and funds in need of restructuring, with allocations of $50-200m per fund across a wide range of strategies and geographies.

AIG Investments was one of the first institutional investors to allocate capital into hedge funds over two decades ago. Robert Discolo, Head of Hedge Fund Strategies for the $10bln hedge group told Opalesque his team is constantly seeking out new opportunities in the evolving industry, and seeding new hedge funds offers AIG Investments another way to be an institutional pioneer in hedge funds. In fact Discolo believes that hedge fund seed investments will soon become an allocation in every well diversified institutional investor portfolio. Teaming up with Larch Lane to focus on this area he cites Founder/CEO Mark Jurish’s pioneering efforts and breadth of experience in the seeding arena as Larch Lane has allocated 22 seed investments over the last seven years.

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