Hermes BPK and the Northern Lights Seed Accelerator Fund focuses on mitigating operational risk and business

  In September 2011, Northern Lights Capital Group, LLC, a private equity firm based in Seattle 11 billion, and Hermes BPK Partners LLP, a fund of $ 1.6 billion fund of hedge funds in the United Kingdom, have joined forces to to launch a new platform that would provide access to investment managers of hedge funds for institutional investors at an early stage. The Acceleration Fund was launched in March this year when he.'s First investment in an emerging manager named Taurasi Capital Management, a new credit hedge funds, long / short fundamental Headquarters in New York

Hermes BPK, which began in 2008, is the division of hedge funds Hermes Fund Managers, aa, € € 30 billion ($ 45 billion) in assets belonging by BT Pension Scheme Manager, the major pension funds in the UK.

"Hermes and BT are the founding fathers of the movement of corporate governance," Mark Barker, founding partner of Hermes BPK and co-CIO told Opalesque. "It was a call from our anchor investor say à ¢ â, ¬ eoeThe hedge fund industry is broken, a fastener., It was really obvious when we work with issues of governance and operation that had obviously in crisis. Money started, we focused on improving their governance structures, operational structures, transparency and alignment of their general investors. "

Hermes like to invest in small manager, but how many of them were operational standards and poor governance, fund of funds has been working with them to improve those standards. But then active managers consistently increased significantly, as they become more attractive to institutions. So they do not stay small, and it was a ......................