Hedge Fund Industry Plays Whack-a-mole: Needs PR Help

September 28, 2007 |

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Criticism of the hedge fund industry is nothing new.  We’ve seen it plenty before … remember LTCM, the Asian crisis, the Flowers Fund, the Manhattan fund to name a few?  Yet, this time around, the criticism is more nasty and hyperbolic.   The industry needs a voice to counter the ridiculous and inflamatory claims made by many in the MSM and other hedge fund haters out there because right now the hedgies are getting whacked.

Check out Information Arbitrage’s post Hedge Funds and PR: Getting Serious — and Fast.  They make the case:

These are smart, cerebral, experienced industry leaders that can bring different perspectives and reason to the proceedings. I have long pushed for private sector-led, self-regulatory solutions governing hedge fund practices. And the time is now for a proactive, industry-driven effort to ensure rational and helpful guidelines are set without regard to the media circus currently engulfing the private equity and hedge fund industries.

HFL agrees. 

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UPDATE: I will be live blogging from the Texas Hedge Fund Association’s Houston Hedge Fund Conference at Rice University later today.
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