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From Sagar Chakraverty, Opalesque Asia: Patric de Gentile-Williams is the COO of FRM Capital Advisors (FCA), a London-based dedicated alternative investment seeding business and a part of FRM, itself a large institutionally focused FoHFs group managing $8.5bn. He recently spoke to Matthias Knab, Opalesques' founder, in a video interview, about the exciting opportunities in the hedge fund seeding arena, how his firm identifies talent, the typical deal structure and the advantages of receiving capital from an institutional seeding company.
Background
Patric de Gentile-Williams entered the hedge funds business in 2003 by setting up PCE Investors, a London-based hedge fund platform. By the time he left PCE in mid-2007, 21 funds had been launched and the firm was managing around $1.5bn.
He then joined FRM Capital Advisors to focus on assisting new managers establish their business.
The rationale for hedge fund seeding business
"As the decade of 2000 progressed, the barriers to entry for starting hedge funds, got progressively higher partly because of the attention of regulators and partly because of the institutionalization of hedge funds investors, which meant that operating requirements, infrastructure requirements, and costs were higher. But there was also an appetite of investors to ...................... To view our full article Click here
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