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Biscardi: Human fundamental analysis rarely generates an edge in liquid markets
“We've never been big on strategies that involve a human doing fundamental analysis and supposedly doing it better than the rest of the world does it. I think in liquid markets, that's an incredibly difficult thing to do, and it's never something that we've rea…”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 12:14 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
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Biscardi: Context Capital researching structured products to buy GP carry risk
“So one of the ideas is to do deals with GPs to In essence, trade fixed for variable. You know, they have this variable risk. We would do a trade with them where we would, in essence, buy that cash flow stream and take the risk of the carry, not entirely, but t…”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 38:32 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
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Biscardi: Context Capital structures partnerships via joint ventures or revenue shares
“In some cases, we've actually co-owned the GP and the management company, and it is a legitimate joint venture. And in other situations, we've done it as more of a revenue share and then provided those services back.”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 19:59 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
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Biscardi: Context Capital averages $20M to $30M per hedge fund seed deal
“We've probably done average seed deals of 20 to thirty million in general.”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 16:20 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
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Biscardi: Investors rank process as the top criterion in fund surveys
“In our investor surveys, investors Constantly put that as the number one or number two most important criteria when they're evaluating a fund.”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 18:49 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
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