In our business you do not learn much by sitting at your desk. This is why Partners Advisers’ investment team annually conducts over 1000 manager meetings and travels more than 200 days, mostly for due diligence and monitoring work.

Our due diligence, which covers strategy due diligence and reference checks, requires iterative meetings by senior professionals with hedge fund managers.

In addition, dedicated analysts conduct thorough operational due diligence and appraise in detail the business risks of the management company, the fund and the service providers.

Once Partners Advisers is invested, our investment team holds at least 3 monitoring meetings a year with each of our fund managers, to ensure continued close and detailed dialogue.

As an asset manager, Partners Advisers is in the business of allocating and managing risks. We believe that the mastering of risk management drives past performance understanding and shapes future absolute performance control.

The central role we assign to risk management has continuously guided the development and the maturing of our investment process.

At each step of the process, from hedge fund specific risk to the portfolio level, we identify, analyze, audit, monitor and aggregate financial and operational risks.

The end result of this work is a detailed mapping and scoring of our hedge fund manager and portfolio risks which we use to strengthen our performance quality.

The hedge fund universe is a multi-faceted and ever evolving one, but it is one that Partners Advisers has successfully navigated through, adapting to different market conditions since 1998.

One of the reasons for this success lies in our ideal size both in terms of people and assets.

Our ratio of hedge fund managers invested per investment professional is very low. In addition, our investment team is large enough to fully cover the hedge fund universe, access and collect large amounts of relevant data, yet flexible enough to efficiently analyze and share information, and most importantly, act on it.

Similarly, our assets are large enough to give us quality access to larger managers but small enough so that we can significantly exploit smaller hedge fund opportunities.