Kuhn: New hedge fund managers cannot balance fundraising travel and trading performance
Steve Kuhn · Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85) · Feb 4, 2019 · at 25:44
Former Pine River portfolio manager Steve Kuhn discusses the operational challenges facing newly launched hedge funds and why incubator platforms are needed.
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“I think, by the way, the biggest thing you'd be helping the new funds with is marketing and helping them tell their story because a new hedge fund manager, they have to have a great first year in terms of their performance and they have to raise money and there's only so many hours in the day. And investors want to meet the leader, whoever that is, whoever he or she is. They want to meet that person. And if that means getting on an airplane, that means you're not sitting in front of your screens that day. It doesn't work.”
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