Hedge Funds

Feed HaKesef is a podcast hosting leaders of Israel's largest financial communities to discuss investments, money, and current economic trends. In this episode, Noa Israeli, Merav Cohen Mor, and Oren Barsky explore the new generation of investors, professional management principles, and how to apply them to a personal portfolio.

In recent months, Israeli investment houses have begun actively acquiring hedge funds. Experts are debating whether this is a strategic business expansion or an overpayment for assets with questionable future returns.

Trust-based hedge funds, recently officially regulated, offer complex investment instruments to the masses in exchange for collecting 20% of profits. However, one case illustrates that you don't have to be a genius to boost profits for a short time, and when investment managers share only in the profits, a market distortion is created.

Israel's largest financial asset firm, Phoenix, is launching its own hedge fund division. The company is recruiting senior industry professionals to compete with established firms like Sphera and Alpha.

Harel is seeking to expand its activity in the hedge fund sector through the acquisition of a management entity. The group is in talks to acquire shares in the management company of the Tulip hedge fund at a valuation of approximately 40 million shekels.

The hedge fund in trust sector, managing approximately 6 billion shekels, faces regulatory uncertainty as its temporary authorization expires. The Knesset is set to vote on a permanent legal framework today, while the proposed metropolitan transport authorities reform remains stalled.