Permal?

Hi guys. I am a long time lurker, first time poster. I've been following for my 2 yr in ER and all of undergrad.

So, this is actually for my dad since I can't really help him on it. Does anyone know the hedge fund-of-funds Permal? I don't know much about HF (mostly from what I read here actually). My father is invested in the Permal fund of funds for a number of years, it was sold to him by his FA. He forwarded me this article from WSJ and had a lot of questions.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304…

He is worried his FA did not tell him about any problems and doesn't know what they could be. Yet, he says Permal fund has done well in terms of performance. He has about 5% of his savings in the fund.

Does anyone have any more information on the situation? What would you do? He can take his money out every month.

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ProdigyOfZenso your a rich kid eh? :)

only 5% of his savings?

hum......

Thats why its called homework.

I think the fund's minimums are like $100K, so his dad is worth at least $2M...

Most investors do like zero homework...even in the HNW space...it's quite amazing actually (not disparaging the OP's dad or saying this is relevant to him - actually no amount of HW would prep you for something like this as far as I could tell from reading the blurb, so just sayin')

 
swagon
alexpaschI'm not a WSJ subscriber...

in other words you don't know shit about finance...

In other words YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT FINANCE.

If you get all your news from the WSJ you are a lemming.

And I believe Alex runs his own hedge fund so yes he knows a hell of a lot about finance.

The one who does not fall, does not stand up
 
ProdigyOfZen
swagon
alexpaschI'm not a WSJ subscriber...

in other words you don't know shit about finance...

In other words YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT FINANCE.

If you get all your news from the WSJ you are a lemming.

And I believe Alex runs his own hedge fund so yes he knows a hell of a lot about finance.

WSJ is not that relevant to what I do, plenty of free sources for mainstream finance news.

 
ProdigyOfZen
swagon
alexpaschI'm not a WSJ subscriber...

in other words you don't know shit about finance...

In other words YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT FINANCE.

If you get all your news from the WSJ you are a lemming.

And I believe Alex runs his own hedge fund so yes he knows a hell of a lot about finance.

I think the real lemming here is the douche who can't detect sarcasm.

 
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swagon
ProdigyOfZen
swagon
alexpaschI'm not a WSJ subscriber...

in other words you don't know shit about finance...

In other words YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT FINANCE.

If you get all your news from the WSJ you are a lemming.

And I believe Alex runs his own hedge fund so yes he knows a hell of a lot about finance.

I think the real lemming here is the douche who can't detect sarcasm.

Sorry buddy but there was no possible way to detect sarcasm in that sentence.You didnt even post a little smiley face etc.

what I really think happened is that you fucked up. You tried to be all high and mighty i am smarter than you to Alex then when you realized that I posted and said Alex was a hedge fund manager you decided to cover your ass with the above post.

but whatever, yea you are right i couldnt detect the sarcasm in your post online on a forum in a random universe some where.

The one who does not fall, does not stand up
 

Anyone else? Have gotten a few interesting points on the fund-of-funds industry, but no one who knows about Permal funds in particular. I very much appreciate it!

 

Alex, you should be offended by everything prodigy and swagon said. Just do it.

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