In a contribution for the MandateWire, Patrick Ghali, makes the case for new investment opportunities in commodity hedge funds, explaining the benefits of using them beyond the need for solid returns but also hedging against risk.
The article, with graphs, can be read as a PDF here: New investment opportunities emerge in commodity hedge funds_Sussex or on MandateWire's website here (subscription required).
Sussex Partners wins prestigious Hedge Fund Journal Award
Sussex Partners is pleased to announce that it was chosen by the judges of The Hedge Fund Journal as winner of its "Leading Hedge Fund Investment Advisory Firm” Award for the fourth year running. The award was presented at the publication’s annual awards dinner, which was held on held on the 26th January in London, and attended by over 150 fund managers, investors and service providers to the global hedge fund industry.
In their citation, the judges noted:
Founded 13 years ago, Sussex Partners is a hedge fund advisory firm that has built an impressive client list working with some of the most sophisticated institutional investors in the world. Its team of seasoned industry veterans employs an intensive and hands on research approach to evaluating and monitoring the managers it recommends. Funds selected by Sussex Partners have been amongst the top performers in their respective peer groups every year since the consultancy’s inception.
The Hedge Fund Journal is a leading monthly publication for the global hedge fund community with a subscriber base fairly evenly split between the US and Europe and 10 percent of its circulation into the Asian markets.
In Elliot Smither's article Hedge funds miss out on appetite for alternatives for Professional Wealth Management, Patrick Ghali discusses that there has been a move away from large managers into smaller managers, commenting: “We [Sussex Partners] always questioned the value of some of these guys. They tended to be the ones who were very institutional, very large. Performance was so-so. They were all slashing fees. Pursuing a volume strategy almost. Now in the press you are reading a lot about redemptions, and funnily enough, these tend to be coming from the same big guys that got all the money before.”
The full article can be read here.