Some Funds Still Like The Face To Face Touch

In a digitally connected world where people are increasingly avoiding human contact, Bienville, a $1.4 billion alternative asset manager, has found success by moving in a different direction. The New York-based fund is unique from several perspectives. Its various hedge fund options are not delineated based on strategy type, as is the common categorization, but rather opportunity set. When it finds an idea suitable for its audience of endowment or family office investment managers, it likes to take investors to the region, have them meet government officials and corporate CEOs face to face as they engage with the hedge fund’s thought leaders throughout the trip. And the strategy appears to be working judging by Bienville returns.