What to do when you pick the wrong month to conduct a survey…
| Feb 8th, 2009 | Filed under: Institutional Investing, Today's Post | By: Alpha Male |
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As we look back at the academic research and industry surveys conducted over the past year, it quickly becomes obvious that studies conducted before September 2008 need to be either reinterpreted or their sponsors simply need to go back to the drawing board. Many conclusions drawn before Q4 are now suspect given the recent tectonic shifts in the hedge fund industry.
It appears that SEI and Greenwich Associates share this concern. That’s why, after interviewing around 90 institutional investors in August 2008 for this report, they “re-interviewed” a third of them in November.
Amazingly, in the middle of a totally calamitous month in the history of Hedgistan, two-thirds said they planned to keep their hedge fund allocation the same going forward – and nearly a fifth said they would increase it.
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