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Eoin Murray From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque, New York:

The hedge fund industry is arguably undergoing a generational shift, as prop desks at large banks disintegrate and more and more traders decide to launch their own funds. However, launching a fund in itself is not nearly as simple as it was five short years ago, when "two guys and a Bloomberg" was interpreted as renegade and entrepreneurial and was not a hindrance to raising assets.

"I guess the biggest challenge was taking the environment and the infrastructure that I was used to in that institutional environment and replicating it in a small, start up hedge fund player," says Eoin Murray in an interview with Opalesque TV. Murray, who launched the London-based quant shop Callanish Capital Partners in 2008, was prior to that CIO at Old Mutual Asset Managers, where he oversaw $12bn in long-only, long/short and some quant and fixed income equity allocations. Part of the challenge in building such an infrastructure in short order Murray says was finding the right team to face that challenge.

Building the executive team at Callanish was helped by seed funding from Dutch pension fund APG’s platform IMQubator. It allowed Callanish to bring aboard Fabrice Connin as Portfolio Manager of the firms global macro fund; Kristy Barr as investor relations and Greg Hutc......................

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