July 2010
Beginner
240 pages
6h 37m
English
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Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice
by CATHLEEN M. RITTEREISER, CFA LAWRENCE E. KOCHARD PHD
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CHAPTER 11
A Driver of Returns
Kathryn A. Hall, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer, Hall Capital Partners
A s chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Hall Capital Partners LLC, a privately owned registered investment advisory firm, Kathryn A. Hall, known as Katie, has become one of the most prominent and well-regarded hedge fund investors. Serving primarily wealthy families, Hall and her team manage approximately $18 billion in multiasset-class global investment portfolios.
Previously, she was a general partner of Laurel Arbitrage Partners, a risk arbitrage investment partnership that she founded in 1989. Prior to that, she was a general partner of HFS Management Partners, HFS Partners I, and Hellman & Friedman. Hall began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she worked in both the risk arbitrage and mergers and acquisitions departments.
Hall chairs the board of directors of the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO), is a member of the board of trustees of Princeton University, and has served on a number of boards and investment committees in the San Francisco Bay Area. A director of American Century Mountain View Funds from 2002 to 2007, she serves on the advisory boards of several private investment partnerships. Hall graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a BA in economics and earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
While her record of accomplishment as an investor and money manager stands ...
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