A good friend or ours and a Family Office Consultant, Leigh Faber has conducted over hundreds of due diligence reviews in her career on behalf of family offices. She has covered hedge funds, commodity trading advisors, private equity, venture capital, and other alternative investments.
Leigh recently sat down with editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf of John Lothian News, and discussed family office allocations to managed futures and mistakes managers make when approaching family offices.
Leigh recently sat down with editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf of John Lothian News, and discussed family office allocations to managed futures and mistakes managers make when approaching family offices.
There is no “one-size-fits-all” way to approach high net worth investors, nor is there one common set of objectives.
The key, according to Faber, is education – on both sides. Managers must explain performance, investment strategy and risk in an easy-to-understand manner, and managers themselves must be sensitive to the nature of family office wealth and how objectives may differ from those of pensions and endowments.
For more information regarding the myths of managed futures, read "Decoding the Myths of Managed Futures".
The key, according to Faber, is education – on both sides. Managers must explain performance, investment strategy and risk in an easy-to-understand manner, and managers themselves must be sensitive to the nature of family office wealth and how objectives may differ from those of pensions and endowments.
For more information regarding the myths of managed futures, read "Decoding the Myths of Managed Futures".
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