SIM plans hedge fund with access to Director Dealings system

Swiss Investment Managers (SIM) is launching a hedge fund it claims is the first in Europe and the US to exclusively employ the Director Dealings methodology.

The Directors’ Dealings Fund (DDF) will base its long or short investment decisions solely on publicly-announced reports of transactions by company directors and senior management who are using their own money to buy or sell equity in the firms. It will be managed by Athanasios Ladopoulos, and George Muzea, who is widely considered the pioneer of the so-called Director Dealing and Corporate Insiders Transactions strategy. Athanasios said the fund uses the Director Dealings methodology so as not to contaminate what the managers consider the most pure indicator of how the business is pe...