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Institutional investors credit Colorado hedge fund industry with independence that promotes non-correlated performance

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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Paul McPheeters
From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia:

Managing assets in the “mile high” city of Denver in the US state of Colorado, offers distinct opportunities for hedge funds that are not available to fund managers in other financial centers in the world.

The most distinct advantages for hedge fund managers located in Denver is that the city offers “truly independent thinking,” says Lars Soderberg, who helped found Independence Capital Asset Partners, LLC, a Denver-based investment management with $500m in AuM. “Our analysts are not attending the same idea sharing meetings that occur so frequently in New York and Greenwich. We are told by some of our institutional investors that this work is borne out by our portfolio holdings not correlating to many of the east coast firms that manage a similar strategy,” Soderberg pointed out at the latest Opalesque Colorado Roundtable.

And Minyoung Sohn a Partner and Portfolio Manager at, Arrowpoint Partners, a Denver-based asset management firm with $1.6 billion in AuM agrees. Sohn said that Denver “can foster real independent and creative thinking, and one factor is that we do not have as much of the day-to-day pressure from the noise in the marketplace,” referring to ......................

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