Interview with the Financial Times

After the financial crisis, I gave a recorded video interview in the offices of the Financial Times in London. This was after the publication in the newspaper's FTfm supplement on fund management of an article which said that many hedge fund investors questioned why the performance of funds of hedge fund was lower than that of many hedge fund indices. I mentioned academic research which has shown that many of these hedge fund indices are biases, flaws from how they are constructed, which inflate their performance.

Here is the full interview.

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