Posts Tagged ‘fund of funds’
David Swensen on fund of funds
Posted by: Michael Zhuang 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 [...]
Why David Swensen calls funds of hedge funds “cancer”?
Posted by: Michael Zhuang on: June 7, 2009
“They are the cancer of the institutional investment world.” – David Swensen, Yale endowment CIO Would you consider forming a partnership with someone you don’t know, in which you would contribute the money and that someone would conduct a business that you don’t understand, and do the accounting as well? Most business owners would respond [...]
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