As the institutional grade hedge funds start to attract assets directly from the allocators, the funds of funds role is developing along two lines. The first is to act as a professional and experienced adviser and partner to those attempting direct investments, and the second is to use the decades of competence in picking winners to discover the talent of tomorrow.
Alongside this development in the talent spotting industry is the growth of institutional grade platforms to house the hedge fund stars of tomorrow. Operational failure is said to be one of the main causes of new hedge funds closing and platforms such as the new dbalternatives Discovery platform and IMQubator, which is backed by Dutch giant Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, are offering...