{"id":15176,"date":"2022-11-30T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/the-hedge-funds-are-back\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:20:13","slug":"the-hedge-funds-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/the-hedge-funds-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hedge Funds Are Back\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to a Bloomberg story, hedge funds in commodities are back and making money. My interest in hedge funds commenced back around 19-years ago when Peter Fusaro and I started investigating commodity funds. We ended up writing the book Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds \u2013 The New Investment Paradigm (Wiley, 2006) as well as working with a fund of funds to put together a commodities fund of funds. It was actually a great deal of fun! Then residing in Houston, my trips to London and Switzerland to meet fund managers opened my eyes to a different side of the business of commodities and to a different lifestyle too. I recall staying the the Conservative club in the City, meeting the MP for my hometown accidentally there and waking to breakfast on a tray and freshly shined shoes from a bone fide butler! However, what I also learned was that despite all their hype, most of the funds and managers were not so much financial whizz kids as fairly ordinary but well-connected people running a variety of long only strategies. For a while, we did brisk business selling subscriptions to a directory of funds but then when the bull market in… continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to a Bloomberg story, hedge funds in commodities are back and making money. My interest in hedge funds commenced back around 19-years ago when Peter Fusaro and I started investigating commodity funds. We ended up writing the book Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds \u2013 The New Investment Paradigm (Wiley, 2006) as well as working with a fund of funds to put together a commodities fund of funds. It was actually a great deal of fun! Then residing in Houston, my trips to London and Switzerland to meet fund managers opened my eyes to a different side of the business of commodities and to a different lifestyle too. I recall staying the the Conservative club in the City, meeting the MP for my hometown accidentally there and waking to breakfast on a tray and freshly shined shoes from a bone fide butler! However, what I also learned was that despite all their hype, most of the funds and managers were not so much financial whizz kids as fairly ordinary but well-connected people running a variety of long only strategies. For a while, we did brisk business selling subscriptions to a directory of funds but then when the bull market in… … continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Hedge Funds Are Back\u2026.. | Commodity Technology Advisory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to a Bloomberg story, hedge funds in commodities are back and making money. 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