Smile, It’s Not All That Bad

It’s not the end of the world as we know it and we do feel fine. There has been a lot of interesting news this week about hedge funds and those who manage them and frankly a lot of it has not been positive.

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But fear not, dear reader, our research shows that the industry is poised for great things in the second half of 2012 and beyond. Investors are looking to allocate to enhance beta, create alpha and most importantly protect their portfolios.

However, before they write the check or send the wire, they are spending a lot of time on due diligence. They are kicking tires, and looking under the hood to make sure the engines they fuel run properly. Our Investor Ops Series kicked off today, this is a first event of its kind allowing investors to get together and discuss: the who, what, where, why and how to complete operational due diligence on alternative investments.

The investor-only summit is a deep dive into the ops side of investing.  Our next program in the series will be later this fall so be on the look-out for because if you are an institutional investor you are not going to want to miss it. Click here to see a bit more about the program.

The InAlternatives blog will not publish next week. We are going to take an extra day off for July 4th. We will be back on the 11th.

Happy 4th!

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Is this thing on…

Welcome to the Institute for International Research's new blog “InAlternatives” focused on the alternative investment industry.

The goal of this exercise is to provide you with information and commentary on how to make your business more efficient. We are going to be covering as many topics as there are alternative investments. From hedge funds and private equity to venture capital and hybrid funds – the subjects will be written about here. The blog will be written by the IIR Alternative Investment team and other industry experts.

 If you would like to learn more about we are doing, have a comment or criticism, have an idea for a post or would like to write a guest post please contact us at ait@iirusa.com. Your feedback is critical don’t be shy – we can handle it.

Our next post is going to be about what we learned at GAIM Ops Cayman through our real-time polling exercises. The data is being complied now and the post will be out on Wednesday.

Stay tuned… you are not going to want to miss this information!

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