Opalesque – Prof. Dr. Peter Meier heads the Centre for Alternative Investments & Risk Management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Zhaw), as well as hedgegate, a free database and index for Swiss funds of hedge funds.
He talked to Opalesque about hedge funds’ performance in 2011, guidelines for fund selection and investing in funds of hedge funds, and the state of the fund of hedge funds industry, globally and in Switzerland.