By Hedge Fund Insight staff Pre-Credit Crunch the largest Asian territories in the hedge fund industry (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Japan) hosted 43.6% of Asian hedge funds. This year those same Big Four has a combined share of 50.8% by number of funds. The corollary is that Western financial centres lost share over the last […] Read more »
Churning of Asian Hedge Funds Takes Its Toll
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Only hedge funds based in North America had positive flows in both the first and second quarters of this year, according to data from Preqin. Net net hedge funds in Europe had positive flows in the first half of the year and hedge funds based in Asia-Pacific had net […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Launches in 1Q 2017
From Preqin related content: Graphic of the Day: UCITS Share of European Hedge Fund Launches (Dec 2016) Cayman’s Share of World Hedge Funds Shrinks, Particularly For New Funds (April 2016) Read more »
Disappearing World – EM Mandates in the Hedge Fund Industry
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The composition of the hedge fund industry is always changing at the margin through two causes – subscriptions and redemptions and investment performance. Seeing the occasional snapshot, a moment in time, does not reflect the trends, the change. Recent data from Eurekahedge showed a trend that has been little reported […] Read more »
Market Shares in Prime Brokerage and Fund Administration of Asian Hedge Funds
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Hedge funds investing in Asia are on a growth trajectory again. The growth of the last few years are an echo of the growth seen pre-Credit Crunch. Of course, as a more mature industry now the rate of growth is lower. There was an explosive growth in the number […] Read more »
…and Asian Hedge Funds Were Doing So Well
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Though it may seem a thought from a long time ago, this year had been stacking up as a relatively good one for Asian hedge funds. This was true as recently as just over a month ago. Comparisons for performance in the YTD to the end […] Read more »
Asian Hedge Funds Attract Capital in 2015 That Pays Off Quickly
By Hedge Fund Insight staff It has been a long road back, but Asian hedge funds have at last regained their peak assets – last seen pre-Credit Crunch in 2008. Total assets in Asian hedge funds (excluding Japan) were at $159.8bn at the end of May 2015. The asset growth since the start of […] Read more »
Multi-Strategy Under The Gun As European Hedge Funds Lag
From Hedge Fund Insight staff The latest flow data from Eurekahedge for the hedge fund industry show net outflows from Europe-focused hedge funds. Only two investment strategies could possibly accommodate the scale of monthly redemptions from European funds – fixed income and multi-strategy (Table 1/Figure 2). So it is highly likely that the biggest outflows […] Read more »
Infographic – Administrators of Asian Hedge Funds
Asian hedge fund industry hotspots: HK & Singapore for HQs, Greater China for mandates
From Eurekahedge The Asian hedge fund industry delivered excellent performance in 2013, beating underlying markets and outperforming its global peers during the year. The Eurekahedge Asia Hedge Fund Index gained 16.10% in 2013 with the total assets under management (AUM) increasing by US$20.6 billion. This brings the total size of the Asian hedge fund industry […] Read more »