Hedge Funds – Between Needs and Being Needed

Dr. Catalin Burlacu
Management Team
Maiora Asset Management

Dr. Catalin Burlacu is an industry professional with over 19 years of experience in asset and risk management, quantitative investment, financial technologies and applications for digital advisory and capital management. He started his career in Japan, working with reputable teams at Morgan Stanley and Barclays Global Investors as quantitative trader and fund manager, covering all segments of the investment value chain. Capitalizing on a solid information technology background, Catalin has managed investment teams in Japan and Singapore, founded investment enterprises in wealth management and trading, strongly integrated within the current regulatory environment in Singapore and Japan. He is a fervent promoter of technology as core skill across all segments of the investment value chain and on this basis he is part of the management team at Maiora asset Management, covering asset and risk allocation business and deal origination for innovative technologies products (financial analytics, life science and healthcare related technologies).

Catalin has a PhD in Control Systems from The University of Tokyo and an executive MBA from INSEAD, France. He is teaching a Master course in Asset Management for the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University.

Abstract

• What is a hedge fund and how does it make money?
• Misconceptions about hedge funds.
• How can investors learn about the hedge fund business (AIMA DDQ or similar)?
• Quantitative Investments.
• Present days needs of the hedge fund business.