To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure any professional Fund of Fund managers anywhere would admit using any of the techniques below, much less advocating their use. That said, in my experience, these techniques are both popular and bone-stupid. Hiring People with Charisma Charisma doesn’t count. It’s not evidence. Hiring People without doing all of your Homework Many FOF managers do only part of their job and fight any suggestion that there is anything else in the world that might be of some importance. Naturally, this problem is not limited to FOF managers. Consider, as an example, that in 2008…