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Hedge Funds New York: Morgan Stanley alumni Andrey Krakovsky and Anil Babbar will launch The Tacticus Opportunity Fund in January 2009 and are targeting launch assets of $100m.

The second century Roman military philosopher Aelianus Tacticus wrote extensively on the war tactics used by the Ancient Greeks. The most valuable of Tacticus’ studies focused on drills and were attributed to helping the military leaders of the 16th century bridge the gap from the earlier semi-feudal systems of patchwork militaries to the modern, cohesive fighting force.

While the current financial markets are rife with opportunity, launching any strategy with the hope of participating in this opportunity requires military precision in strategic and tactical planning. After speaking with Krakovsky it is apparent that the partners chose the name Tacticus Capital with the utmost respect to both the aggressiveness of the markets and the scholarship of this tactical philosophy.

Launching into a rapid evolving industry
The hedge fund industry is going to look completely different in a year, Krakovsky told Opalesque, and the markets will have weeded out those managers who provide alpha and those who do not. Krakovsky, who began his career as a physicist, before becoming a trader of US corporate credit, emerging markets credit, and asset backed mortgages at Morgan Stanley and then Highland Financial (where he was the principal trader of the HFH Short Plus Fund), sees the overlay of tactics on top of fund strategy as the driver of this alpha.

Krakovsky sees as much change within the credit strategies as he does for the entire hedge fund industry. “There will be a new wa......................

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