France's hedge fund face-off

Structured product developers in France are battling it out with fund of funds managers to win domestic hedge fund market share. Hedge fund-linked structures may not always have performed well in the past, but many market participants say business is still booming

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"The French are in love with structured products," says Vincent Kuhn, managing director of Bryan Garnier asset management in Paris. "Only Japan has a similar predilection for hedge fund-linked structured products, though for different reasons." With a near endless supply of mathematicians applying their intellectual prowess to the creation of sophisticated structured products, France's reputation as a nation of financial engineers is well deserved. At the same time, the country has grown to

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