Christie Street Capital is currently seeking new institutional investors. The technology-based hedge fund, which is run by former JPMorgan strategist Greg Geiling, has previously been family-and-friends financed, and is looking to expand into new opportunities.
Total money-raising for the fund is aimed to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, a figure which dwarfs its current funding of $50 million.
Since its foundation in 2006, the fund has generated average returns of 21% for investors.
“Tech is not really in favour right now, but if Christie Street has a verifiable track record and can convince prospective investors that it will deliver alpha [ie, above market returns], it should be able to attract interest,” says Dan Farkas, hedge fund analyst at Morningstar.
Christie Street was named for the New Jersey thoroughfare on which legendary inventor Thomas Edison lived.