They have also excluded from their research those funds that are «investment vehicles built
by traditional asset managers that package exposure to a single currency, such as the Bitcoin Investment Trust from DGC / Grayscale».
By
requiring traditional asset managers to step up their game on ESG factors, they will help drive more of the financial services industry to consider sustainability issues in all investments.
Traditional asset managers «have to be involved, or they're going to get left behind,» said Mike Venuto, chief investing officer and co-founder of Tosoro Investments, which this April launched an ETF to track ETF companies.
He has over 27 years experience working with hedge funds, private equity firms and
traditional asset managers and has previously held similar roles at Bloomberg, Citco and other technology and alternative fund service providers.
As traditional hedge fund managers cede ground — and lose assets — to
traditional asset managers and even ETFs, institutional investors can still tap some of the risk premia that hedge funds were targeting.
This valuation is pretty pessimistic since Argo Group is a hedge fund with a 2 +20 fee structure, making the AUM way more valuable than those of
a traditional asset manager that might have an 1 ~ 1.5 percent fee on AUM.