Survey reveals hedge fund investors are changing channels
| Apr 28th, 2011 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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As the adage goes, the one constant in life is change.
No more so is that true than in the hedge fund industry, which over the past few years has morphed into what investors expect and demand, particularly institutions who have collectively re-invented the game – not only in terms of the returns they expect, but what they’re willing to tolerate as fees, transparency and liquidity.
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Thank you for the great commentary on our most recent research. In follow-up to your post, it’s important to note that our study actually eliminates the issue that you discuss of “a lot of double and even triple counting: hedge funds that run the same strategy in multiple currencie,for instance.” As noted in our research methodology, we aggregate data from ten leading databases. We then scrub the data using our unique PerTrac ID which eliminates the issue of funds reporting to multiple databases and of funds running the same strategy in multiple currencies. It’s this very process around deduplication which allows us to present the most holistic and comprehensive view of the hedge fund industry.