Allocator Insight: Current Trends and Opportunities in Hedge Fund Investing
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Join us for an insightful discussion on hedge fund investing from the allocator's perspective. Our panel will explore the evolving investment landscape, current trends in hedge fund allocations, and the strategies attracting the greatest investor interest today.
Topics will include:
- The outlook for hedge fund investing in the current market environment
- Areas of increasing allocator interest across hedge fund strategies
- How investors are evaluating managers and opportunities in 2026 and beyond
- Gain valuable perspectives from experienced industry professionals and learn how allocators are navigating today's investment opportunities and challenges.
Speakers
Steve Grabowski
Co-Head of Capital Introduction, StoneX Prime and Outsourced Trading
Steve has 20 years of experience in the investment management business. In his current role, Steve serves our outsourced trading and prime brokerage clients by providing consulting and capital introduction.
Prior to joining StoneX, Steve was a managing director and an investment consultant with Cambridge Associates and Prime Buchholz where he worked with a wide range of endowment, foundation, and family office clients.
Chris DeConinck
Head of U.S. Equities, Lighthouse Partners
Chris is responsible for overseeing U.S. equity long/short investments for both fundamental and systematic strategies at the Lighthouse Group. His responsibilities include sourcing, evaluating, managing, and monitoring equity managers. Chris is also a member of the Lighthouse Global Equity Strategy Committee.
Prior to joining the Lighthouse Group in 2021, he was an Executive Director at PivotalPath, a hedge fund consultant and analytics company. While there, he covered a broad range of hedge fund strategies on a global scale. Chris graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.
Patrick Callahan, CFA
VP, Fund Management & Research, iCapital
Pat is a Vice President on the Hedge Fund Research team at iCapital which he joined in 2021. Mr. Callahan focuses on providing sourcing, due diligence, underwriting and monitoring hedge funds and other niche alternative strategies for iCapital. Pat also serves as an Investment Team member for the iDirect Multi-Strategy Fund, a registered tender offer fund of hedge funds.
Prior to joining iCapital, he worked as the Director of Research at Masterpiece Advisors, a boutique investment consulting firm which creates customized hedge fund portfolio solutions for corporate pension funds. He also previously worked as an Investment Analyst at Alternative Investment Group, a fund of hedge funds. In the early part of his career, Pat spent nearly a decade on the buyside working as an Execution Trader, Risk Manager and Analyst at different hedge funds. Pat graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut and is a CFA charter holder.
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