Women in Hedge Funds

Pomegranate Capital, in a international study by CEO Susan Solovay, found that there are 250 female hedge fund managers worldwide, and wants to open the first fund to invest in hedge funds solely run by women.

Solovay has gained backing from Fortress and a Monaco-based Safra family to open this first of its kind hedge fund. After researching the performance of hedge funds run by women, Solovay claims that the studies showed women fund managers performed consistenly better than those run by men.

In an interviev with Reuert Stiener, one prospective investor said: “What she is trying to do is launch a business that capitalises on this inefficiency. She feels she can put together a fund of outstanding female managers that don’t have enough investment and build a successful product on the back of this research. Many of the male-run funds are closed whereas the female-run ones still have capacity to take in money.”

She claims that the research showed that male-run hedge funds managers tended to shoot from the hip making big returns one year and poor ones the next. The research, which was undertaken over a period of years, showed women produced more consistent long-term growth with less volatility than those managed by male fund managers. But the research also showed that women struggled to raise the same levels of funding as men.

Pomegranate identified more than 250 funds managed by women, investing in a range of strategies: long/short equity, distressed, special situations, event-driven, global macro and arbitrage.