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Adam Blitz Inside Hedge Fund Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.17)

Published: July 17, 2017, 10 a.m.

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Adam Blitz is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Evanston Capital Management, a $4.5 billion hedge fund of funds manager with a decade and a half of experience managing hedge fund portfolios. Adam joined Evanston at its inception in 2002 and leads investment research and portfolio management. Previously, he worked in the Prime Brokerage area and Asset Management Division of Goldman Sachs and served as head trader at AQR.\\xa0 Adam earned a B.S. in Economics at the Wharton School.

Our conversation dives in the hedge fund category of investing, covering how a leading allocator in the space thinks about strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management, manager research, decision making, and monitoring managers. Adam\\u2019s perspective on the evolution in how allocators perceive hedge funds and the resulting unattractiveness of the \\u201caverage hedge fund\\u201d today resonate strongly with how I\\u2019ve viewed this widely discussed and recently scrutinized corner of the markets.

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