Anthony Scaramucci is Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, an alternative asset manager with approximately $7.46 billion in assets under management or advisory as of September 30, 2011. SkyBridge was launched in 2005 to be an incubator to growing hedge fund businesses, seeding the best global talent, but expanded its range of services and products with the 2010 acquisition of Citigroup Alternative Investment - Hedge Fund Management Group. The acquisition expanded the SkyBridge range of product offerings, particularly in the fund of funds space.
In this Opalesque.TV interview, Anthony describes his motivations for SkyBridge’s evolution from seeder to integrated asset manager with a dual fund of funds/seeding model. Along with a collection of well-established managers in the fund of funds platform, Anthony talks about the need to maintain a “venture capital approach” in seeding the best talent in emerging managers, trying to find the “next Ray Dalio or Dan Och”. SkyBridge’s strategic partnership in 2008 with Challenger Financial Services Group was integral in this search, creating the first global institutional emerging manager seeding platforms.
In addition, learn about the following:
SkyBridge Direct: A wholesale approach for institutions to build hedge fund portfolios
"Cloud" servicing for institutions
SALT Conference mandate and global expansion
Considering the future of hedge funds and retail hedge fund products
Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, an alternative investment firm. Prior to SkyBridge, he was the co-founder of Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001 after building a managed account business and four hedge funds having in aggregate more than $800 million of assets. Upon Neuberger Berman’s sale to Lehman Brothers in 2003, he served as a Managing Director in their Investment Management Division. From 1989 to 1996, Mr. Scaramucci was at Goldman Sachs & Co., where in 1993 he became a Vice President in Private Wealth Management.
Scaramucci is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School. He is a correspondent on CNBC’s Fast Money, author of Goodbye Gordon Gekko, recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 New York Award in the Financial Services category, and was a technical adviser for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. He is a board member of The Lymphoma Foundation, the Brian Tumor Foundation, Warrior Gateway, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and was honored at Keep a Child Alive’s Black Ball, where past honorees have included President Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Branson, Bono and Simon Fuller.
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Anthony Scaramucci is Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, an alternative asset manager with approximately $7.46 billion in assets under management or advisory as of September 30, 2011. SkyBridge was launched in 2005 to be an incubator to growing hedge fund businesses, seeding the best global talent, but expanded its range of services and products with the 2010 acquisition of Citigroup Alternative Investment - Hedge Fund Management Group. The acquisition expanded the SkyBridge range of product offerings, particularly in the fund of
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