The number of active CTAs peaked in 2013, five years after their banner year of 2008. The peak of CTA launches was in 2012. The trend of more liquidations than CTA launches began in 2016 and the net decline has accelerated since. Read more »
European Hedge Fund Industry Assets Below Level of 5 Years Ago
From Eurekahedge European fund managers recorded net asset outflows of US$4.3 billion while registering performance-based gains of US$2.8 billion during last month. Total assets in European hedge funds stood at US$480.9 billion as of June 2019, below their January 2018 high of US$577.5 billion. On a year-to-date basis, European hedge fund managers have seen performance-driven gains of US$13.1 […] Read more »
Listed Hedge Funds to Go From Growth to Shrinkage
By Hedge Fund Insight staff There will be new issuance of £11.3bn in UK listed investment companies over the next three years with two thirds of this new issuance to occur in alternative investments.”The number of alternative investment companies launched in the last five and ten years was more than twice as high as […] Read more »
Hedge Funds in Europe in Graphics in 2018
For 2008 it has been estimated by data provider Preqin that Europe-based investors allocated a combined €175bn to hedge funds; today there are over 1,100 institutional investors in Europe actively investing over €404bn in hedge funds – a huge increase since the GFC. In 2017 Preqin produced a study with AIMA looking at employment in the hedge fund sector; the study estimated that […] Read more »
Acceptance? UCITS Hedge Funds Best AUM Growth This Decade
UCITS hedge funds were not exempt from the impact of the shrinking of the global hedge fund industry, as shown by the number of closures in 2017, which was a good year for hedge funds in terms of performance. More than half of the UCITS funds listed in the Eurekahedge database charge up to 1% management fees. On the other hand, only 26.7% […] Read more »
Infographic – European Hedge Funds 2017
2017 year-to-date return for Europe v other regions All Data from Eurekahedge Read more »
Graphic of the Day – North American Hedge Fund Industry Infographic
From Eurekahedge Related articles: America’s Richest Hedge Fund Managers (Sept 2015) New Hedge Funds Cannot Achieve Even 1.5/15% Fees In U.S. (Apr 2015) Read more »
UCITS Hedge Funds – Graphics of the Day
From Eurekahedge UCITS hedge funds have maintained a strong pattern of growth in 2014, with the industry delivering modest returns and also attracting plenty of new capital from investors. Currently the size of the industry stands at a record high of US$275.2 billion, overseen by a population of 1,016 funds. The onset of the Eurozone […] Read more »