This week I spent 3 days in Paris, attending the Hedge Fund Intelligence Summit 2016! It’s one of few European conferences I attend during the year – and I was looking forward to taking the temperature of the HF industry, after the poor start that equities and other traditional assets have had this year! My first observation after arriving at the Place de la Bourse venue was the feeling of fewer people attending relative to last year. Of course, I could be wrong, but nevertheless, I had expected a more buzzing reception when I arrived…why?…because after 6 years of an equity...