Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice

About the Authors

Cathleen M. Rittereiser informs and educates institutional investors as a writer, speaker, and consultant. She chaired the Markets Media Eye on Endowments and Focus on Foundations symposium and edited the Markets Media Annual Review and Outlook for Endowments and Foundations, a magazine published in January 2010. Rittereiser is the co-author, also with Larry Kochard, of the book Foundation and Endowment Investing, published by John Wiley & Sons in January 2008.

An alternative investments marketing executive with more than 20 years’ experience in financial services, Rittereiser has held positions with leading asset management, research, and brokerage firms. Her hedge fund experience includes stints in marketing and business development for Alternative Asset Managers and Symphony Asset Management. She began her career with Merrill Lynch.

Rittereiser received an AB from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

New York Times technology columnist and author David Pogue chose three of her submissions for his book The World According to Twitter (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009). A New York City resident, she can be found on the Web at www.cathleenrittereiser.com.

Lawrence E. Kochard, Ph.D., CFA was appointed chief investment officer at Georgetown University in June 2004. In addition to serving as CIO, he teaches investment courses for the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown. Previously, ...