We asked Barclays' new head of prime sales what's driving massive hedge-fund launches and how the ba

Barclays is in the early innings of an overhaul of its equities division. It recently promoted rising star Betty Gee to run prime brokerage sales in the Americas, a key business that she says has increasingly "become a driver of the industry's equities wallet." Business Insider sat down with Gee to discuss what it takes to start a hedge fund, what's behind the string of colossal launches in the industry, and how technology and electronic adoption are changing the industry and making...