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The stories behind standout firms

Capital follows connection.

Real conversations with the fund managers, allocators, and advisors behind standout firms: the backstories, the first meetings, and the relationships that carried them.

Hosted by Jennifer Bruno, founder of Catalyst Hedge Fund Marketing and CapitalFormation.ai

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The show is back.

Hedge Interview ran from 2018 to 2024, then paused while I led marketing and investor relations inside a commodities multi-strategy firm. Two years on the inside changed how I hear these conversations, and made me want to have more of them. New episodes, new look, same conviction: strategy and performance get the meeting; alignment and trust win the relationship.

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Six conversations, one table.

Every episode belongs to one of six series, because standout firms take more than one seat at the table.

Manager Profiles

The founder's story behind the fund

Emerging and boutique managers on how they got to the table: the backstory, the first allocator meetings, and what finally worked.

Investor Views

What makes an allocator say yes

Family offices and allocators on how they actually evaluate managers: what earns a first meeting, and what a real relationship looks like.

Advisor Angle

How advisors grow trust at scaleNew

RIA founders and wealth advisors on winning clients, communicating through drawdowns, and building a book on lasting relationships.

Service Provider Spotlight

The support behind the builders

The lawyers, administrators, CFOs, and platforms standout firms run on, and how to choose them well.

The Big Picture

Where markets are headingNew

The outlook, from the people watching markets closest: managers, analysts, and research firms on the regimes, the risks, and the opportunities they see forming.

Deep Dive

One sector, one theme, all the way downNew

Topic-specific conversations with the specialists who know their corner of the market best, from commodities to credit to whatever comes next.

Latest conversations

Investor Views

Terry Purcell, Partner & Co-CIO, Longwall Family Office

The allocator who wants to find you before you're famous.

April 2024 · 34 min · Show notes →

Service Provider Spotlight

Ron Geffner, Founding Partner, Sadis & Goldberg

The lawyer who's seen every way a fund launch goes wrong.

April 2024 · 57 min · Show notes →

Every conversation

Six years of managers, allocators, and the people who help funds run: every conversation, playable right here.

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Investor Views

Terry Purcell, CAIA

Partner & Co-CIO, Longwall Family Office

The allocator who wants to find you before you're famous.

April 2024 · 34 min

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Service Provider Spotlight

Ron Geffner

Founding Partner, Sadis & Goldberg

The lawyer who's seen every way a fund launch goes wrong.

April 2024 · 57 min

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Service Provider Spotlight

Scott Treloar

Co-Founder & CEO, Noviscient & FundBox.AI

Launching a fund in a month, not a year.

March 2024 · 36 min

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Service Provider Spotlight

David Gerber

Founder & CEO, Wolfgang Capital

What it really costs to run a fund business.

March 2024 · 39 min

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Service Provider Spotlight

Kevin Fu

Co-Founder & CEO, Repool

Fund admin, rebuilt for emerging managers.

January 2024 · 32 min

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Manager Profiles

Edward Chin & Thejas Nalval

CEO & CIO, Parataxis Capital Management

Institutional discipline in a market that had none.

June 2023 · 41 min

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Manager Profiles

Andrew Cohen

Co-Founder & CIO, Difesa Capital

The three-legged stool between fixed income and equities.

February 2023 · 19 min

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Investor Views

Saad Hassan

President, Hassan Family Office

Treat family offices as people, not banks.

October 2022 · 36 min

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Investor Views

Ryan Kalish

Founder & CEO, Allocator.com

What allocators do with your data when you're not in the room.

November 2020 · 29 min

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Investor Views

Nitin Shakdher

Founder & CEO, Green Capital Single Family Office

Building relationships when nobody can shake hands.

November 2020 · 21 min

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Investor Views

Aradhna Dayal

Chief Investment Officer, Regal Ford Asia (Single Family Office)

A family office view from the other side of the world.

July 2020 · 36 min

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Manager Profiles

Eric Munson

CIO & Co-Founder, ADIT Ventures

Investing alongside families, on identical terms.

January 2020 · 60 min

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Investor Views

Jeff Tumolo

Chief Investment Strategist, TAG Associates

A sustainable process beats a hot streak.

November 2019 · 16 min

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Investor Views

Catherine Shiang

Managing Director, Single-Family Office

No one-size-fits-all: hedge funds as risk tools.

November 2019 · 35 min

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Investor Views

Brian DeLucia

Managing Partner, Arrivato, LLC

The episode that started the Investor Views series.

November 2018 · 22 min

Jennifer Bruno, host of Hedge Interview

Why this show exists

I'm Jennifer Bruno. For 25+ years I've sat across the capital-raising table from allocators, as an asset raiser, internal marketer, and someone who has viewed all stages of the founder-allocator relationship trajectory. That vantage point taught me a simple truth: raising capital is all about building relationships.

Capital follows connection. These are the stories behind the connections that build great firms.

Hedge Interview is where those relationships get talked about in the open: managers on how they got funded, allocators on what makes them say yes, advisors on how trust gets built client by client, and the specialists who keep standout firms running. The stories behind standout firms, told by the people who lived them.

Jennifer is the founder of Catalyst Hedge Fund Marketing and CapitalFormation.ai. On this show, the conversation is the whole point.

Have a story worth telling?

If you're a boutique fund manager, an allocator, or an advisor with a point of view on how capital and trust really move, I'd love to hear it. Episodes are 30 relaxed minutes, recorded remotely. You'll leave with a polished video asset made to share.

Pitch yourself as a guest

New conversations, twice a month.

One email when each episode drops: the story, the best line, and the listen link.