Archive for January 2010
David Swensen on fund of funds
Posted on: January 17, 2010
Quoted from David Swensen’s interview with WJS …
Fund of funds are a cancer on the institutional-investor world. They facilitate the flow of ignorant capital. If an investor can’t make an intelligent decision about picking managers, how can he make an intelligent decision about picking a fund-of-funds manager who will be selecting hedge funds? There’s also more fees on top of existing fees. And the best managers don’t want fund-of-fund money because it is unreliable. You need to be in the top 10% of hedge funds to succeed. In a fund of funds, you will likely be excluded from the best managers. [Mr.] Madoff also relied enormously on these intermediaries. He wouldn’t have had nearly as much resources were it not for fund of funds.
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Robert Shiller gives praise to David Swensen before lecture on human foibles in investment
Posted on: January 14, 2010
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