Anthony Scaramucci left his secure position as managing director of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Management Division in 2005 to found SkyBridge Capital. At that time his friends and family couldn’t understand why he would leave a global investment giant to found a small-size hedge fund that began with only $330 million in assets under management (AUM). Today New York–based SkyBridge Capital runs a thriving fund-of-funds and fund-seeding business with $6.5 billion in AUM, while Lehman Brothers has been swept into the annals of history.

Scaramucci, 49, is also a prolific writer and visited Asia recently to promote his second book, The Little Book of Hedge Funds, a primer on how hedge funds work. He spoke to Institutional Investor’s Asia Bureau Chief Allen T. Cheng about the book and about SkyBridge’s expansion plans into the Asian region.....

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