Cooper: Fund managers who consistently generate short alpha are exceptionally rare
Ben Cooper · Will Cook - Sunriver Management (Manager Meetings, EP.22) · Dec 2, 2021 · at 5:40
Ben Cooper, an institutional allocator at Cardano Group, explains his framework for vetting long/short equity hedge fund managers to host Ted Seides.
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“We have a real focus on alpha, and we want to see managers able to produce alpha on both the long and the short side, and I think a lot of managers that we come across are very adept, consistent at generating long alpha. But those that can really generate short alpha are really few and far between.”
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