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Institutional investors appear more optimistic than last year on their plans to allocate to hedge funds

Thursday, March 05, 2015

Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

"Institutional investors appear more optimistic regarding their plans to allocate to hedge funds than they were this time last year, primarily because of their ability to generate uncorrelated returns and lower volatility in a broader investment portfolio," Robert Leonard, Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Services at Credit Suisse, commented on the Swiss bank’s seventh annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey.

The survey, entitled "On the Path to Broader Horizons", analyses 378 institutional investors representing $1.13 trillion of hedge fund investments.

Almost 15% of investors forecast an increase in hedge fund industry AuM this year (which could reach over $3tln) - compared to 12% last year.

32% are looking into global macro strategies – even if this very strategy has just had several years of underperformance relative to others – due to factors such as central bank divergence, Greek debt issues and regional growth uncertainties. 26% of investors are also looking into event-driven strategies (last year's most sought after) and 24% into CTA/managed futures strategies (which ranked last in the prior survey). Commodities and natural resources-related funds are also attracting more interest, thanks to the current dislocations ......................

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