Christopher writes speeches for clients. He also assists bereaved families who wish wishing to honor their loved ones by writing upbeat obituaries, celebrating well-lived lives. This is Christopher’s obituary of the late Amanda Haynes-Dale, a pioneering woman in Funds of Hedge Funds, written and edited at her behest to be published in The New York Times on March 23, 2025.
AMANDA HAYNES-DALE Obituary
HAYNES-DALE-- Amanda H. Amanda H. Haynes-Dale, a pioneering woman in funds of hedge funds, died on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, after a long battle with ovarian cancer, which she faced with her usual keen intellect, courage and a lack of self-pity. She honed her financial skills in the male-dominated world of 1970s and 1980s Wall Street before creating her own woman-owned business in 1991, which seeded several of today's most renowned hedge fund managers: John Paulson of Paulson & Co., Mario Gabelli of Gamco Investors, and David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital.
Born in New York City on January 6, 1950, Amanda was close to her parents. Her father, the late Justin O'Brien Haynes, was a distinguished investment banker and a long-serving board member of Bristol Myers Squibb. Her mother, the late Evelyn G. Haynes, was the beauty editor of Vogue magazine from the 1930s through the mid-1950s, and a founding Commissioner of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in the early 1960s. Amanda displayed her commercial acumen early on. While in the third grade at Spence School, she became the Cheerios Girl of 1958 and was featured as a winsome young equestrian in TV commercials that ran for a year. After Spence and Madeira boarding school she dropped out of NYU Stern School of Business to buy polo ponies in Argentina, which she sold profitably at Cowdray Park in England. She dated Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, but neglected the opportunity to become an English duchess, much to her mother's chagrin.
After the death of her father in 1973 she joined the investment bank Wertheim & Co. (now part of Morgan Stanley) and became a broker. She left to start her own broker-dealer firm, AH Haynes & Co., Inc., and created her first Fund of Hedge Funds, now known as Pan Altes Multi Strategy, LP, with a 34-year high-performance track record. Along the way she was featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, HFM, and Opalesque, and in 2011 she was recognized as one of 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedge Fund Journal.
Amanda was married briefly to Alan S. Dale of Houston, Texas, a litigator in maritime law and a managing partner of Eastham Watson Dale & Forney (now SBSB Eastham), now retired. They had one child, Campbell Justin ("CJ") Haynes-Dale, a former energy investment banker at Morgan Stanley who launched his own family office and private advisory firm in 2022.
Amanda's happiest academic years were at Spence School. She created the Evelyn G. Haynes Fund at Spence to cultivate students' interest in the arts, as a tribute to her mother, who died in 2001. Unlike her parents, who collected 18th- century English portraits and furniture, Amanda focused on contemporary photography, which adorns her three homes in Manhattan, Houston and East Hampton.
Amanda embraced life with enthusiasm. Her adventurous spirit carried over to her "girls'-night-out" birthday celebrations at lively venues: jazz clubs, off-Broadway plays, gospel restaurants, and comedy clubs. She relished anything new and different. Amanda leaves behind her adored son, CJ Haynes-Dale, and his wife Brette; her half- sister, Sheila Lady Hale of London; her nephew, John Justin Hale and his wife Amanda Hale of London, and their two children, Beatrice and Rigby Hale of London. Contributions may be made in her memory to the Evelyn G. Haynes Fund, Spence School, 22 E 91 St., NYC 10128, Attn. Development Department. A memorial service will be held at St. James Church after Easter.
