HOW CAN SHIPOWNERS GET HEDGE FUND CAPITAL?

As a postscript to Mr. Uttmark’s hedge fund article and how they work we decided to try to talk to a few hedge funds and identify why they like or disliked shipping as an investment. Obviously, although we gave it the college try, hedge funds that were not involved in shipping did not care to even take our calls. These are the same types of people who do not realize that 90% of world trade, in terms of tonnage, moves by ship… they are not bad people but they are not visually measuring the containers laid-up in Elizabeth, NJ when they drive to Wall Street each morning to get an essence of the market either. Are they missing out?

The hedge funds we are familiar with, for the most part, spoke to us and while keeping things close to the chest, of course, the general motivation for all hedge funds was strikingly similar.

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