According to HFR, investors continued to withdraw capital from Fund of Hedge Funds, which experienced $4.4 billion in 3Q outflows, the 6th consecutive quarter of outflows. Total capital invested in Fund of Funds increased to $635 billion, as the HFRI Fund of Funds Composite Index gained +2.4 percent for the quarter. The HFRI Fund of Funds […] Read more »
Large Investors Negotiate Terms With Offshore Funds
Ingrid Pierce, Global Managing Partner, Walkers Satisfying investor demands: IFCs must promote compliance and high governance standards as investor power reaches unprecedented levels. As consolidation in recent years has led to fewer, larger players, the funds industry is now witnessing the emergence of a new generation of influential single investors with an unprecedented amount of […] Read more »
Co-Opting Marketing Resources for Hedge Funds – Part Two
Preqin – Building On A Database The previous and following articles in this series cover lead generator companies in the hedge fund business who make great efforts to explain that they are not database companies. Preqin is a database company that is trying to add some value beyond that restrictive label, so is […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Risk Management is “A Work in Progress”
By Simon Kerr For a long period I was unable to carry on reading SEI’s fifth annual global survey of institutional hedge fund investors beyond this summary point: “RISK MANAGEMENT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Only one in five of those we polled agreed that “most hedge funds do a good job of risk management.” […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Returns Are Path Dependent – As 2011 Illustrates
One of the things that is attempted on this website is to look at market action to help explain, or comprehend hedge fund returns. For example, two years ago a commentary was distributed on the significance of the quality factor in explaining returns in 2009 (see this article), and the impact of high correlation this […] Read more »
Winton’s Futures Fund is primus inter pares
David Harding There has been a lot of comment in the hedge fund industry on the asset gathering of Winton Capital this year. David Harding’s firm has attracted inflows of over $7bn in 2011, which equates to over 10% of the whole industry’s capital inflows. This is a remarkable market share of the growth for […] Read more »