Henderson Global Investors wants to be taken more seriously in the hedge fund market. The firm launched its first hedge fund in 1999 – a global tech long/short fund – and now runs $2.5 billion in 15 funds. To build the business further, Henderson has been recruiting distribution talent from hedge funds and is ready to attack the US market.
“We were among the first traditional asset managers to run a hedge fund but at the time it was more of an opportunistic approach. It wasn’t...
