DealBook – When FrontPoint Partners began in 2000, its founders envisioned the firm as a one-stop shop for multiple hedge funds, a distinctive strategy in an industry dominated at the time by single star managers.
As FrontPoint fights to stay alive after an insider trading scandal, one of its co-founders, Philip Duff, who left in 2006, sits in a nondescript office less than a mile away from his former firm rethinking the pension business with his latest venture, Massif Partners.