( www.cnn.com ) – Sophisticated investors use hedge funds to increase the overall performance of their investment portfolio. Hedge funds can generally achieve higherreturns, relative to risk, than traditional investments by using a range of innovative investment styles, hedging strategies and financial instruments.
This partnership is the first in a number of such relationships to be made by Investcorp’s asset management group in order to offer clients in the Gulf region the opportunity to invest with emergingand best-in-class individual hedge fund managers. Investcorp is acting as Fund sponsor by dedicating investment and risk management resources, as well as business support, to oversee investments withmanagers such as Cura.
Based in New York, Cura was founded in 2004 and has over $190 million assets under management, as well as a demonstrably strong track record. Cura is led by Thomas Schnepp, formerly with the leadingfixed income hedge fund manager the Clinton Group.
