Hedge Road is apparently a one-way street this year
| Jan 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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It’s sage advice to always look both ways before crossing the street – unless it’s a one-way street and the odds of someone going in the wrong direction are fairly slim.
It appears hedge fund managers are collectively betting that 2011 will be an accident-free one-way street to improved returns and additional confidence from investors convinced that alternative strategies are the right direction to go in.
Indeed, according to a survey released last month by Barclays Capital, some two-thirds of hedge fund managers are expecting to deliver gross returns of around 10-15% this year, while 30% expect to deliver outsized returns of 15% or higher. Well over half of the managers surveyed expect to provide at least the same returns as last year, while a solid third expect an increase. (See charts below illustrating expected returns and where the returns will be coming from geographically.)
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