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Patrick Burger Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

In Zurich, where the asset management industry is now more than ever counting on innovation to gain a competitive advantage, we heard of two new endeavors at the recent Opalesque Zurich Roundtable, that will put emerging fund managers to work.

"We see that there is still a huge interest from talented managers to start their own business. But the times were you could launch a fund with two Bloomberg terminals and a credit card are categorically over," said Patrick Burger, Partner and Fund Manager at Swiss Hedge Capital. Founded in 2004, Swiss Hedge Capital a single fund manager based in Zurich that manages an offshore long/short equity fund and a UCITS fund applying the same investment strategy.

When the company received its FINMA licence in 2011, they had already built up a sophisticated platform with the intention and capability to exploit it at a later stage. The company then launched the House of Funds platform, "where talents or existing funds can start or expand their business under the regulated hat."

Managers can launch their fund on the platform, grow, and benefit from the company’s investor base. "With this "sharing a platform" solu......................

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