Hugh Hendry, CIO & Co-Founder, ECLECTICA ASSET MANAGEMENT went head to head with Mike Novogratz, Principal & Member Of The Board, FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP in the THE GAIM INTERNATIONAL 2010 Debate entitled “The Gap In The Curtain – How Great Minds Disagree” which was moderated by Dan Shapiro, Partner, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL, Partner, LINCOLN VALE. He announced the launch of the new Eclectica Credit Fund – dubbed the “beat the politicians” fund during the debate with Mike Novogratz.

In an interview for the Spotlight Series, Hugh expressed the view that the route to success was finding assets classes that are priced as non-contentious… but have the potential to be very contentious.   And his USP? He is the least correlated asset in the world; when every other asset manager was disappointing their customers, he made 50% in Oct 2008 and 2% in June 2010.

Peter M. Lupoff, Founder TIBURON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, chaired at session at GAIM International 2010 entitled Credit/Distressed – “The Best Opportunity of a Lifetime” Redux. He was joined on the panel by

Asset Allocators:

• Russell E. Lundeberg, Jr, Principal & CIO, BARRETT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
• Ingrid Neitsch, Director, FRM
• Ernesto Prado, CIO & Managing Partner, AYALTIS AG

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and Asset Managers:

• Steve  Moyer, SVP, PIMCO
• Daniel Capocci, Portfolio Manager, DC ADVISORY
• Juan Luis Rivera, Partner, Portfolio Manager - LATAM, MONEDA ASSET MANAGEMENT S.A.

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In an interview with for the Spotlight Series, Peter outlines his own strategies to simultaneously hedge risk, be open to the opportunities of a tumultuous market while remaining agnostic to the broader market.  He also explains why he feels the panelists have a uniformly bearish view to the end of the year.