Bloomberg Hedge Fund Summit 2012: Hedge Fund Start-Ups

Bloomberg Hedge Fund Summit 2012 in this panel Jason N. Ader, CEO and CIO, Ader Investment Management Gregory Hall, Senior Managing Director, Gregory Hall, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM) and Ted Seides , President and Co-CIO, Protégé Partners, LLC talk about hedge fund start ups. The panel talks about activists, not specifically the big names like Peltz, Loeb Ackman, or Icahn, but smaller players. There is a lot of opportunity in the activist space to find alpha. The panel hedge fund of fund managers do not like macro funds, except for Bridgewater Associates, BlueCrest and Brevan Howard (known as the B’s). The problem with…