Barbarian Investments Launch Film Production Hedge Fund

Filed in archive Hedgetalk on June 12, 2007

In a HedgeCo story; "The current influx of funds from hedge funds, private equity funds and institutional investors into studio and independent distributor funds has created a considerable opportunity on the content creator side of the Hollywood equation," says Aaron Kaufman of the Barbarian Investment Fund.

Barbarian brings together 5 notable film producers such as Benderspink (The Ring, American Pie), Original Media (Half Nelson), GreeneStreet (In The Bedroom) and others. The fund provides a mitigated risk portfolio of non-correlated assets by investing only in films under 10 million that have 80 to 100% of their budgets secured by foreign pre-sales.

Private equity and hedge funds are now also entering the film market, funding large scale ventures such as Virtual studios and Legendary Pictures, these groups have recently funded films such as Superman Returns, batman begins, Poseidon and 300.