Strategy

Latitude lights up Europe

The Latitude fund is one of the best new funds in Europe and won last month's Hedge Funds Review performance award in the global macro category. It was also shortlisted in the newcomer category, suggesting just how well it has performed since its launch…

Taking the high road to absolute advocacy

While a lot of pension funds still dither over whether or not to invest in hedge funds, General Motors Asset Management's head of research, Edgar Sullivan, puts the case and reasons for GMAM's step into absolute return in 2001

Smart money

Sandra Manzke has built an enviable reputation over decades on thinking differently. So it is little surprise that, as the hedge fund universe homogenises, she is setting off to ventures new

In the futures perfect

Malta's Michael N Trading is employing three systematic trading models in its Bond/Bund programme, then picking the best performer at the time to run the money

What's on investors' minds…

Some US institutions are asking where the alpha will come from, whether a pyrrhic victory will result if their 1.5% in hedge funds is the portfolio's sole performer, what will shake their colleagues out of hedge funds, and are hedge funds truly "monsters…

Park Place's Polaris missile

Park Place Polaris Prime Europe Fund investors have lived in interesting times, swooping from 430% in 1999 to -37% in 2002. The recruitment of two new faces in 2003 to address such reversals of fortune has paid dividends

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