Michael Hintze of CQS: Hedge funds should talk

Michael Hintze founded global hedge fund CQS, where he remains chief executive and chief investment officer. During a recent visit to Hong Kong, he invited AsianInvestor to be the only publication to have a one-on-one interview with him. Is it fair and reasonable that a Wall Street bank can undertake the same kind of trading strategies as a hedge fund via its prop-trading desks, while also benefitting from an implicit government guarantee that hedge funds do not have?This is one of t…