Incisive Views from Professionals
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Investor capital continued to pour into the Asian hedge fund industry in late 2013 and early 2014, with record inflows and performance driving total investor capital to surpass the record level set in 2007, prior to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Total capital invested in the Asian hedge fund industry grew […] Read more »
By GFIA of Singapore Historical overview GFIA began coverage of the Asian hedge funds industry in September 1998. At that time the industry was tiny and all participants mostly knew each other. The Asian crisis was still unfolding, and the industry was a collection of maverick specialists. It was another five years before the industry […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In line with the thrust of the previous article on Hedge Fund Insight, August flows to Asian and European hedge funds were positive when flows to North and South American funds were slightly negative, according to Eurekahedge data. As far as the Asian flows were concerned this was the sixth […] Read more »
By Peter Douglas, GFIA We recently were asked to source a shortlist of established, differentiated, Asian boutique hedge funds, for a distribution company. The deal between the distribution company and the funds, if concluded, would be that the distribution company would make introductions to European institutions, in return for a fee share. We anticipated that […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Earlier it was noted here that European and Asian hedge funds were starting to attract capital flows. American institutional investors are the source of roughly 60% of the flows to the industry, and this year they have diversified from their existing holdings of hedge funds. That trend has continued into […] Read more »
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The returns of equity long/short managers are under examination here, and how the managers have performed relative to their regional indices. It is no surprise that European long/short managers have produced returns year to date closely in line with the STOXX Index – the aggregate stock selection […] Read more »
By Peter Douglas, GFIA At an aggregate level, it’s still a very tough world out there. No manager we’ve spoken to this year has said anything except “asset raising is hard”. Even if there’s a mini-renaissance, the number of allocators globally that are prepared to write tickets to smaller managers remains far smaller than five […] Read more »
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight, As for any period since the end of 2009, so far this year the hedge fund industry mostly has been about what has happen in North America. That is where the managers who are attracting most assets are based, and that is where the flows coming into […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In 2012 new hedge fund launches outpaced fund liquidations for the third year running The inverse relationship between changes in the number of launches and the number of closures each year has broken down, suggesting that the prospects for the industry at the smaller end have changed The number of […] Read more »