Hedge Fund Expert Network Services

Gain Insights at Every Stage of the Investment Cycle

GLG helps hedge funds gather strategic insights, assess value, and mitigate risk throughout the entire investment cycle. Depending on your needs, we can connect you with key opinion leaders through one-on-one calls, live meetings, on-site visits, board placements, or tailored surveys.

Research

Connect with industry veterans, academics, and subject-matter experts with experience and knowledge in all major industries to explore new investments and understand key market trends.

Ideation

Get targeted insights and expertise from one-on-one calls, live meetings with executives at conferences, surveys, and on-site visits.

Monitoring

Monitor your investments, conduct channel checks, and gain up-to-date insights. GLG can help your firm with an appropriate board placement or conduct a tailored survey.

What We Do

GLG supports a wide range of investment strategies.

Long/Short

Our approach provides clients with multiple perspectives of companies, industries, products, and geographies. GLG can help you assess both bottom-up and top-down value drivers critical to long/short equity and credit investing.

Healthcare

We connect clients with the largest and most varied network of key opinion leaders in biotech, pharmaceuticals, services, medical devices, and diagnostics. GLG helps healthcare investors stay ahead of rapid changes in the development of new therapies, devices, and diagnostic tools.

Event-Driven/Risk Arbitrage

Our experts include industry executives, partners at leading law firms, former senior officials from key antitrust and competitive regulatory bodies at state, federal, and international levels. GLG helps event-driven funds and merger arbitrage teams evaluate special situations and associated events in real time.

Global Macro

GLG’s Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Affairs practice area features a vast network of former government officials, domestic- and foreign-policy experts, attorneys, economists, and political-risk experts, providing informed assessments of policy debates, new regulations, and geopolitical trends.

Emerging Markets

GLG helps emerging and frontier market investors connect to on-the-ground expertise. Our experience serving emerging market-focused investors and our connections with trusted regional research partners help our clients accurately assess opportunities, risks, and prospects for growth.

Activist Investing and Private Placements

Our experts include industry and operating executives, giving clients an opportunity to leverage a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and senior executive relationships. GLG supports less-liquid and activist investing strategies through project-based diligence, consulting, and board placement solutions.

Spotlights

Assessing Risk for SMB Lending

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GLG helped a major financial services company develop a product through a series of 20 in-depth interviews with experts in the SME banking industry. These one-to-one calls helped the client understand how current banking systems assess credit risk for SME customers.

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Stress Testing an Investment Thesis

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GLG helped an investment firm challenge assumptions about a global C2C marketplace. Following extensive research, the GLG team delivered a comprehensive report with unbiased findings and scenario analysis, highlighting competitive insights, opportunities, investment requirements, and relevant operational metrics.

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Uncovering Needs in Medical Scrubs

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A public investor needed to accurately assess the medical scrubs market before making an investment decision. GLG facilitated dozens of calls with both current and former industry experts, surveyed nearly 1,000 healthcare professionals, and developed and ran concept tests to identify purchase drivers and key preferences.

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The GLG Difference

Real-World Expertise

GLG has approximately 1 million Network Members across the globe, spanning industries such as consumer goods, healthcare, technology, industrials, legal and regulatory affairs, and more.

A Trusted Environment

Our teams use industry-leading compliance protocols. We’ve built a safe and trusted environment for Network Members and clients to help protect them from exposing, or being exposed to, confidential information.

Personalized Service

Our service professionals and market research experts work with your team to create a tailored research approach, helping you get answers to your most pressing questions.

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