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The SEC has suffered a major setback in its bid to increase oversight of the private equity and venture capital industry after a US appeals court threw out a new rule requiring managers to provide investors with fees and expenses each quarter.
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Ken, I do believe as an industry, the large pensionfunds that have an overallocation of private equity and the rotation of money in the private equity area has slowed down precipitously. And the other half is more in liquid hedgefunds in our strategic equity hedgefunds and some of our systematic strategies as well.
For me, I sat mostly in their internal, really an internal hedgefund. They borrowed money at live bid at the time. So we’d have credit, we’d have equities, we’d have hedgefund strategies, but with no silos. You guys operated pretty fully hedged at most of the time, right? Oh, really?
Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. But we, we were mostly had minority equity positions because when you, when you, all you have is a hedgefund, Barry. And infrastructure today is bought by sovereign funds, big pensionfunds with a view that it is very steady. You guys just get rid of this.
I remember once, one of my colleagues says that a friend, one of the French Lazard Frerers partners was asked by a sort of junior, “How much should we tell our client to bid?” I was having lunch with Jeremy in the summer of 2007, just after the Bear Stearns hedgefund started blowing up. RITHOLTZ: He’s a consultant.
In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pensionfunds, he said. So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said. per cent return.
We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pensionfunds, we have endowments. Now what we did trade well was our defensiveness and our quality bid, staying away from small caps. So I would say the challenge of having those roles is that our institutional clients are much shorter term.
We spent weeks, night and day, studying it, decided it wasn’t a good deal, decided not to bid, which I’m fine with. And then when we decided not to bid at 90, it eventually went up to, you know, 111 or something like that. And you know, so we looked at it very hard, decided not to bid.
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A lot of ’em went to buy side hedgefunds. Well, what I can do is I can use derivatives to get that exposure, either the s and p 500 or those treasuries, and then I’ll use my freed up cash and I’m gonna go invest in some hedgefund that I think is gonna give me uncorrelated alpha, right?
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