Shaking up hedge funds

Tremont Advisers, one of the largest hedge fund of funds, has taken an aggressive risk management approach in an industry long accustomed to sleepy high-net-worth investors. Will it pay off? Gallagher Polyn reports

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Founded in 1984, Tremont, a subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds, a $120 billion asset manager based in Rye, New York, is one of the oldest and largest players in the hedge fund of funds industry. Under Cynthia Nicoll, director of risk management at the $8.4 billion fund, Tremont has over the past two years taken a strong stance favouring risk transparency for hedge funds.

The often-complex investment profiles and secretive natures of hedge funds makes funds of funds’ risk management, asset allocation

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