WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Leading Edge Investments is gearing up to offer alternative investments. Clayton C. Jue, CFA, President and Chief Investment Officer of Leading Edge InvestmentAdvisors LLC, announced that the firm is recruiting Kevin F. Granger as Senior Vice President and Director of Research. �Mr. Granger is also Founder and CEO of Anira Advisory Group LLC, a fund ofhedge funds managers dedicated to providing institutional investors with absolute return investment solutions, primarily using hedge funds run by emerging managers.�
Mr. Granger also said that Mr. Jue joined AAG as Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Jue will thus be Chief Investment Officer of LEIA and of AAG. This exclusive agreement between the two firms is the first step in their joint plans to offer hedge funds and other alternative investments platform. No specific details about the nature of the strategies were immediately provided.
In his statement, Mr. Jue said, “Our platform will be highly competitive, and will allow exceptional and promising emerging managers to focus on delivering the outstanding investment returns clients seek, but cannot easily locate for a variety of structural reasons. The combination of LEIA and AAG is a watershed event, and will create a robust unified platform on which institutional investors can access optimized solutions using both traditional and absolute return strategies in a suite of innovative products previously unseen in the market.”
In his remarks about the joint partnership, Mr. Granger said, “I am really excited to join the LEIA team, and to welcome the LEIA team to AAG. It has been extremely encouraging and inspiring to meet Clayton and a whole team of accomplished professionals focused on delivering investment performance, deeply committed to protecting and growing the assets of clients and pension plan members, and driven to set the very highest standards in the investment management arena for personal integrity, and professional competence and execution� Granger added, �through LEIA and AAG, qualified emerging managers, whether they run traditional or absolute return strategies will be able to access institutional assets elegantly, allowing them to focus on one thing many clients seek: consistent alpha generation.”
Leading Edge Investment Advisors is an emerging, minority-owned, manager of managers business focused on developing investment portfolios that leverage the talents of emerging investment managers. More details available on: www.leia.net
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