Novus receives position-level transparency from 1,500 hedge fund managers
Basil Qunibi · Basil Qunibi - Moneyball for Allocators (Capital Allocators, EP.42) · Mar 5, 2018 · at 23:11
Basil Qunibi, CEO of investment analytics firm Novus Partners, describes the scale of Novus's administrator-sourced hedge fund dataset.
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“We have about 1500 hedge fund managers that now give us their position Level transparency directly from administrators”
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