Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers:
Najy Nasser and Henry Watkinson of London-based HeadStart Advisers explain how their fund of hedge funds has evolved into a high-conviction, alpha-centric vehicle – one that was up in both March and April 2020, outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 40 percentage points in 2022, and continued to prove its defensive construction during the Liberation Day sell-off of 2025.
Going a bit further back, the HeadStart Fund of Hedge funds has almost tripled the HFRIFOF Index (312% vs. 112%) since 2009. Not only that, this fund of hedge funds also comfortably beat the single manager index HFR Fund-Weighted Composite Index (HFRIFWI): 312% vs. 188% over all those years.
Read the full Opalesque interview here.
