Global Fund Analysis Boosts Hedge Fund Advisory Service

by Carla Johnson, InvestorsOffshore.com

24 April 2001

Global Fund Analysis (GFA), the London-based fund research group, has announced its intention to focus its fund advisory services exclusively on hedge funds and will offer free hedgue fund data before the end of this quarter as well as online access to individual research reports.

In a press release from GFA, managing director Simon Hopkins explained: 'We will publish in excess of 150 reports this year, whilst we will continue to rate offshore traditional funds, we are being inundated with demands for our in-depth analysis of alternative investment strategies. We have had to be confident that we will not infringe the regulatory environment for dissemination of hedge fund information via the web. To this end, all our research is protected by Sealed Media technology, ensuring only qualified investors can gain access.'

GFA has also announced that its asset management affiliate, Fortune Asset Management, is about to promote a series of fund of fund products drawing on the research resources of GFA. Hopkins states: 'We are offering an off-the-shelf solution for investors that wish to cost-effectively participate in the Multi-Manager wealth management business. Alternatively we can fully customise a fund for a bank or asset manager at a higher entry level.'

He adds: 'With the lack of transparency and regulations emblematic of the offshore world, we believe we can give investors additional confort by means of a regulated, onshore asset manager as opposed to simply an advisor, as is the case with most fund of funds.'

GFA says the first fund was seeded in January with Euro 8 million and is investing with Europe-focused managers - a globally diversified fund will be launched imminently.

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