ABSTRACT
This chapter includes personal stories of expert hedge fund investors. They talks about their career paths, openly discusses their exacting search for investment answers, and shares invaluable insights for young people and seasoned investment professionals. The chapter covers the challenging topics of quantitative and qualitative manager selection and quantitative portfolio construction. Adam is the Head of the Investment Science Unit and is a Partner and Managing Director in Cambridge Associates' Boston office. He has held senior roles in manager research where he focused on investment opportunities in diversifying asset classes and strategies, including CTA/managed futures, alternative beta and risk premia, active currency, and volatility trading strategies as well as discretionary and systematic macro programs. Christophe L'Ahelec, Senior Director of external manager program at the University Pension Plan Ontario, is an investment professional with more than twenty years of global experience in France, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Canada.
