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Peter Meier By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:

A joint venture between Switzerland's largest pension plan consulting company and Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law is becoming a global concern. Hedgegate started in 2001, largely as a database and web system focussed on funds of hedge funds' services. Professor Doctor Peter Meier of the Centre for Alternative Investments & Risk Management at the university says: "We can provide hedge fund of fund ratings, either a quantitative automatic rating which is public and free to everyone or a Total Risk Rating which the providers of funds of funds have to pay for."

The Hedgegate business model is based on the club system and currently has 30 members across the global fund of fund industry who pay a fixed fee, get their funds listed on Hedgegate and receive additional services.

Originally conceived to add transparency to all Swiss hedge funds of funds, the Hedgegate service has grown and through the financial crisis saw an increase of 20 per cent a year in terms of visitors to the site. The total number of visits now sits at 10,000 per year. Hedgegate's data is published in a number of newspapers as well.

The team behind the service comprises 10 people who do some teaching and other projects including research into alternatives. Hedge Analytics owns the technology and rating systems on which Hedgegate is based and that company is partly owned by the pension plan consulting......................

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