{"id":45312,"date":"2014-12-04T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45312"},"modified":"2014-12-04T08:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T13:36:21","slug":"investcorp-hedge-funds-group-boosts-its-manager-research-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/investcorp-hedge-funds-group-boosts-its-manager-research-team.html","title":{"rendered":"Investcorp Hedge Funds Group Boosts its Manager Research Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capital-Introduction-Services-Prime-Brokerage-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Capital-Introduction-Services-Prime-Brokerage-1.jpg\" alt=\"people moves\" width=\"154\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; $11 billion hedge fund group Investcorp,\u00a0announced that <span class=\"xn-person\">Gregory LaFiura<\/span> has joined the firm&#8217;s Hedge Funds business as a Principal in the Manager Research Team with a focus on long\/short equity strategies.<\/p>\n<p>LaFiura will have primary responsibility on sourcing and conducting due diligence on equity managers for its fund of hedge funds and seeding platforms. He will also be responsible for evaluating equity co-investment opportunities for its Special Opportunity Portfolios. Mr. LaFiura will be a member of the Hedge Funds Manager Recommendation and Investment Universe Committees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to enhance our investment universe across strategies and regions for our clients. Greg will further extend our capabilities in conducting deep analysis of manager portfolios before they are recommended to our investment universe.&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Lionel Erdely<\/span>, CEO of hedge funds, said.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Investcorp, LaFiura spent nine years at Permal Group where he most recently served as a Portfolio Manager for its equity focused fund of funds portfolios. Prior to that, he held roles as an Equity Research Analyst at Douglas C. Lane &amp; Associates and a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs Group. Mr. LaFiura holds a MBA from <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Michigan<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Stephen M. Ross School<\/span> of Business and a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Economics and English from <span class=\"xn-org\">Lehigh University<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As of <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 30, 2014<\/span>, Investcorp&#8217;s Hedge Funds Group had <span class=\"xn-money\">$5.0 billion<\/span> of assets under management, including <span class=\"xn-money\">$2.5 billion<\/span> in customized funds of hedge funds, <span class=\"xn-money\">$2.2 billion\u00a0<\/span>allocated to Investcorp&#8217;s single manager business and <span class=\"xn-money\">$221 million<\/span> in its special opportunities portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; $11 billion hedge fund group Investcorp,\u00a0announced that Gregory LaFiura has joined the firm&#8217;s Hedge Funds business as a Principal in the Manager Research Team with a focus on long\/short equity strategies. LaFiura will have primary responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45325,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions\/45325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}