克里斯摩根琼斯，38岁可能看起来不像私人侦探，但他知道如何收集市场情报。在过去的11年里，他为全球风险咨询公司Kroll致力于欧洲，中东和非洲的行动。现在他正在在摩根戴尔首都申请他的技能，他共同创立了专门从事新兴市场的新兴的对冲基金。He thought of fusing Kroll’s on-the-ground due diligence with long-short equity investing in late 2007, when he and pal Ashley Dale, 41, a former long-short equity portfolio manager for London-based GLS Capital, were discussing the challenge of gathering data in faraway, opaque markets. They teamed up with Alistair Candlish, an emerging-markets specialist at London-based hedge fund firm BlueCrest Capital Management, to launch the business early last month. “We tend to use political consultants, strategy consultants, financial journalists and former intelligence agents — people who understand their territory extremely well and enjoy an intellectual challenge,” says Morgan Jones.