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Mirabaud remains optimistic about hedge funds

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

From the Opalesque team: Anne-Cathrine Frogg Spadola, senior hedge fund analyst and co-director at Mirabaud & Cie, told Swiss newspaper Le Temps last week that hedge funds, having an innate ability to adapt and innovate, remain an unavoidable investment tool. The situation will be rich in opportunities once the crisis is over. The industry will reassess itself as we are going through a period of cleansing of what the past years’ excesses have produced. Referring to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, she said that we could rest assured that hedge funds will be able to demonstrate their strength, and will navigate in a new market environment with the agility that is known of them.

Pioneer in alternative investments, Mirabaud has more than 30 years of experience as co-manager of one of the world’s largest multi-manager hedge funds. Mirabaud manages a solid portfolio of alternative funds in addition to traditional investment funds.

Mirabaud runs several Luxembourg-domiciled alternative multi-manager funds: MirAlt SICAV Diversified (-8.11% YTD to September), MirAlt SICAV Equilibrium (-9.3% YTD), MirAlt SICAV North America (-12.5% YTD), MirAlt SICAV Europe (-14.0% YTD), as well as hedge fund of funds Haussmann Holdings and Asian Capital Holdings which the firm co-manages with other institutions.

Mirabaud inaugurated its new headquarters in Geneva in early September. Corporate website:......................

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