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Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The hedge fund industry is well positioned for another year of solid
growth in 2015, said eVestment in its 2015
Hedge Fund Industry Outlook released on Tuesday. It said that
the roles of hedge funds, and the expectations of their results, have
become better defined for institutional investors’ portfolios.
According to the report, while there will always be investors for whom
certain strategies do not fit within their scope or scale, the global
institutional investment landscape dwarfs any one participant. With
long-term trends in place and the future of global markets ever
uncertain, hedge funds will continue to evolve into an institutional
staple, with some casualties and great successes along the way.
"Entering 2014, we believed the demand for hedge fund products would
surpass that of 2013. Through November 2014, investors allocated 80%
more to hedge funds than in the full twelve months of 2013, over $112bn.
This represents not only the largest inflows into the industry on an
absolute basis since 2007, but also surpasses 2010 on a rate-of-growth
basis. To understand why this happened, particularly when 'the
industry’ was broadly described as "underperforming" in 2013, we
need to recognize that the long-term trend, driven by institutional
portfolio allocation decisions, determines the i...................... To view our full article Click here
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