Gaining the Edge Moves Flagship Cap Intro Event to New York City

Gaining the Edge will be shifting its capital introduction event from Florida to New York City. Gaining the Edge – Cap Intro New York will take place in-person at the Marriott Marquis on Wednesday, November 2 and Thursday, November 3. For those unable to attend in person, three weeks of virtual meetings will be scheduled from October 31 through November 18. The event’s state-of-the-art scheduling portal will remain open for the duration of the event and will allow participants to schedule meetings 24/7 to accommodate Europe, Middle East and Asia based participants. 

Gaining the Edge has hosted 3 highly successful cap intro events with approximately 1,000 registrations at their most recent event held earlier this year in West Palm Beach. GTE’s first two events had an approximate overlap of 25% with other cap intro events. The West Palm Beach event had a slight increase in overlap due to the proximity and timing of multiple, similar events in Florida. Gaining the Edge will be moving its flagship event to New York City to maintain low overlap of both alternative investment managers and allocators, with other leading independent cap intro organizers. 

Gaining the Edge strategically selected New York City, the global epicenter of the alternative investment industry, not only because a large percent of industry assets are managed within the Tri-State Area, but also because it includes the largest allocator base in the world. The location is a critical destination for most investors and managers and is a top travel priority. In addition, Gaining the Edge is experienced in hosting events in New York City, which includes selling out each of its 6 Hedge Fund Leadership Conferences prior to the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020. Don Steinbrugge, the founder of Gaining the Edge stated “The early November dates provide an opportune time for investors to meet new managers or get updates with existing relationships leading into year-end allocations. We expect this will be one of the largest and highest quality in-person and virtual cap intro events in the alternative investment industry.”

The event will focus on alternative investment managers having 1-1 capital introduction meetings with leading alternative investment allocators from around the world, including endowments, foundations, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, institutional consulting firms, OCIOs, fund of funds, family offices, and private banks among others.

Due to the diversity of strategies participating, this event is expected to complement prime broker sponsored capital introduction events, which tend to be focus heavily on long/short equity managers. Previous Gaining the Edge events have included a broad selection of investment strategies including hedge funds (Asset Based Lending, Cleantech/ESG/Impact, Convertible Arbitrage, Cryptocurrencies, CTA/Managed Futures, Distressed Debt, Emerging Markets, Equity Market Neutral, Event Driven, Fixed Income, Global Macro, Long Only, Long/Short Equity, Merger Arbitrage, Multi-Strategy, Options/Volatility, Quant/Stat Arbitrage, Reinsurance, Short Bias, Special Situations, Specialty Financing, Structured Credit as well as others) in addition to venture capital, private equity and real estate.

Gaining the Edge was established to help educate institutional investors about alternative investments and to raise money for charities that benefit at-risk youth. In addition to hosting three cap intro events that have averaged over 1,000 registrations, more than 7,000 alternative investment professionals have registered for one of its Hedge Fund Leadership Conferences or Hedge Fund Educational Webinar Series. The firm’s Hedge Fund Industry Insight Newsletter also has over 27,000 subscribers. Gaining the Edge and its affiliate, Agecroft Partners, have donated over $3 million to charities that benefit at-risk youth.

Agecroft Partners has volunteered its time to help market the event and aid in the event’s success. Selected 12 years in a row by HFM Week and/or Hedgeweek as the top third party marketing firm in the industry, Agecroft has developed a strong reputation and enduring relationships with institutional investors around the world. In addition, they have created potentially the largest investor network in the industry. The success of any capital introduction event starts with the quality of investors. High quality investors attract high quality managers, which increases the level of participation from each. Members of the Agecroft Partners team have spoken at over 100 alternative investment conferences, have appeared in hundreds of industry articles and have been regular guests on business television including Bloomberg and CNBC.

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