The financial services industry is on more solid footing than it has been for quite some time, yet institutional investors are increasingly taking equity stakes in the funds in which they invest, a report from Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services observes. One of top three trends is institutional investors purchasing hedge funds One of the top three trends occurring in the hedge fund world is fund owners “monetizing” their business and raising assets to manage by offering Institutional investors a stake in the company. This, in turn, is both creating opportunity and raising fiduciary concerns at the same time. The…
Hedge Funds Monetizing By Selling Stakes To Institutional Investors
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.