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Paulson has built a powerful internal marketing force to make sure there is a steady stream of money from wealthy individual investors trying to get into his funds. This was one of the more surprising things my colleagues Jennifer Ablan, Svea Herbst-Bayliss and I found when we began taking a close look at Paulson’s problems this year.
Now there’s nothing wrong with a successful manager taking maximum advantage of so-called hedge fund platforms to rake in money from rich individual investors. One could even say it’s smart because it enables a manager to take advantage of Wall Street brokers to help sell his funds and create pent-up demand at the velvet rope line.
But these distribution channels, which more and more managers are looking to join, are also a away for hedge funds to get around securities rules that theoretically limit the number of investors that can go into anyone portfolio. Typically,Giubbotti Moncler, the investment with a hedge fund is listed in the name of a brokerage on behalf of all its customers who commit money to a manager. So if UBS, which has an agreement to sell Paulson’s Advantage funds, takes in money from 1,Moncler Sito Ufficiale,000 of its wealthy clients, that would be officially listed as a single Paulson investor.
This one reason hedge fund investing has become a lot more common than it used to be. Sure, you have to be rich to still get into one of these distribution channels, but sometimes a person can be investor in a hedge fund simply because a broker with discretionary authority thinks it’s the smart thing to do.
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