From Preqin Over recent years Europe-based investors have accounted for a decreasing proportion of capital allocated to hedge funds by institutional investors worldwide, as some have pulled back from investing in the asset class and investors in other regions have increased their activity. Europe-based institutions accounted for 32% of institutional capital invested in hedge funds in December 2011; this figure has […] Read more »
FACTA and AIFMD Constraining Smaller Hedge Fund Manager Growth
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 »