How Difficult is Fund Raising for Founding a Hedgefund?

How difficult is it to fundraise when founding a hedgefund. Is it entirely determined by your network, or does your pedigree play an important role? How much money could a senior investor at Tiger Global, for example, expect to raise? What about a PM at Millenium? What about a PM of an average performance pod? What about an experienced trader at Jane Street?

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FinancialModelzNbottlez

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Well sometimes another fund will seed you capital. There are also initiatives like cap intro on Sum Zero for this purpose.

Yes, it’s very hard and prestige matters, but track record and LPs will matter the most.

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I used to do Asia-Pacific PE (kind of like FoF). Now I do something else but happy to try and answer questions on that stuff.

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