The Hedge Connection: Making the Courtship Between “Allocators” and Hedge Fund Managers Less Awkward

We all remember our teen years, and how uncomfortably self-conscious we were with members of the opposite sex, perhaps asking someone to dance.

Of course, awkward situations don’t just vanish once we’re grown and out in the business world. Take the challenge of creating a new relationship between a hedge fund manager and an “allocator” (apparently a new term for “professional investor of relatively large amounts of capital”). If the relationship is to happen at all, someone needs to make the first move, but no one’s easy making or receiving cold calls or other unsolicited introductions.

Based in New York City, The Hedge Connection offers a set of services aimed at getting this courtship, or at least the first date, off on a good, stress-free start. The website simply acts as a place where members of each group can extend a tentative reach for the other, based on a number of key criteria that guide their search.

There are a couple of places where I come in—thus the reason for this post:

I write an article in their blog (“The Edge”) called “The Cleantech Investment Opportunity of the Month,” which, I’m told, gets a large number of views, and, as the title suggests, gives me a chance to promote some of the most solid business concepts I’ve been coming across in clean energy and the broader arena.

I also like to promote the Hedge Connection’s “Global Fund Forum,” an annual conference which brings together (you guessed it) investors and fund managers in a series of low-pressure, pre-arranged meetings in a venue that itself exudes tranquility; this year it’s Bermuda.

For anyone who may be potentially interested, I include this link and the picture here. Looks like a depressurized zone to me.