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Opinion

Patric de Gentile-Williams, FRM Capital Advisors

In 2009 many sophisticated investors will recognise that in the new landscape the opportunities for the right hedge fund managers are greater than they have been in a generation. They will aggressively......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

What will be the key skill hedge funds will need for 2009?

One point everyone appears to agree on is that 2009 will be different. The environment in which hedge funds operate has changed, perhaps changed irrevocably. Managers will need to multi-task as well as......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Quantum of chaos

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Scott MacDonald, VanMac (Australia)

With most people currently lamenting their paper losses and worried about the value of their property those of us who are professional or just prudent investors will be looking with interest at the facts.......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Natasha Reeve-Gray, Altis Partners (Jersey)

Managers will need to re-assess their exposure to service providers (prime brokers, bank accounts etc) and ensure they have sufficient disaster recovery plans in place to switch these providers at the......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Colin McLean, SVM Asset Management

2009 should bring good opportunity for the surviving hedge funds, both in longs and shorts. Sectors do not all recover at the same time. Next year there will be some downward trends even as leading sectors......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Lars Steffensen, Ebullio Capital Management

Since I believe the past is a prologue, I think a number of quotes from antiquity (the ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese were not exactly strangers to crisis situations) will assist in illustrating my......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

David Williams, DLA Piper

Multi-tasking will be the key skill. The volatile markets of late 2008 will undoubtedly give rise to a host of new challenges in 2009, all of which will need to be managed simultaneously. A number of challenges......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Tom Scanlan, Lionhart

2008 has been an unpredictable year to say the least and 2009 looks like it will be more of the same. As a manager, I believe the most important thing you can take into next year is flexibility. Not just......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

Nick England, CIA

2008 has evidenced one of the most volatile periods in the history of global markets. The end of easy credit, the so-called credit crunch, was swift and brutal. Few would have foreseen the magnitude of......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Nov 2008secure

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