{"id":8485,"date":"2008-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"new-gottex-fund-emulates-university-endowments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/new-gottex-fund-emulates-university-endowments.html","title":{"rendered":"New Gottex Fund Emulates University Endowments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeFund.Net &#8211; Swiss funds-of-funds firm Gottex Fund Management is launching a fund that will emulate the investment principles of U.S. &ldquo;super endowments.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> The new fund will emulate the investment principles of successful U.S. university endowment funds, such as Harvard and Princeton. It will allocate about 65% to alternative investments. The alternative part of the portfolio will cut across all asset classes: hedge funds, private equity, commodities, long-only equity, fixed income, real estate and other real assets. <\/p>\n<p> Harvard Management, long the model for university endowment funds currently with about $35 billion in assets, increased more than 20% year over year in 2007.<\/p>\n<p> William Landes is helming the new fund. Landes joined Gottex from Boston-based 2100 Capital, his hedge fund specialty firm that Old Mutual Asset Management bought in 2005. Before that Landes was a money manager at Putnam Investments, which helped incubate 2100 Capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefund.net\/publicnews\/default.aspx?story=9190\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeFund.Net &#8211; Swiss funds-of-funds firm Gottex Fund Management is launching a fund that will emulate the investment principles of U.S. &ldquo;super endowments.&rdquo; The new fund will emulate the investment principles of successful U.S. university endowment funds, such as Harvard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[2387,508,1412,1182,331,1705,720,315,115,264,2388,2389,603],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-syndicated","tag-asset-management-corp","tag-bad-news","tag-decade","tag-distressed-debt","tag-downside","tag-due-diligence-requirements","tag-fund-managers","tag-fund-specialist","tag-indefinite-period","tag-initial-offering","tag-jeff-larson","tag-jersey-city","tag-poor-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}