Institutions to FoHFs: We don’t really like you after all
| Jul 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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It’s tough to tell just how institutional investors really feel about funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) these days.
For a while it seemed like they’d given up on the concept, thanks to the credit crisis, lock-ups and other fun stuff. Then it seemed like they were willing to give them another go, even though returns weren’t exactly off the charts.
More recently a few studies even seemed to affirm that all was still okay for them, like how our “Paranoia the Destroyer of funds of hedge funds or not” from not too long ago suggested FoHFs were just being paranoid, and also our “Survey pensions keep welcome mats out for funds of funds” published just last week suggesting investors actually do still seem to like them. This was enough to cause FoHF’s to preen their feathers for another round of fund raising.
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