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Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Investors are planning to allocate more into CTAs, macro and equity strategies in 2016 even as the hedge funds industry is seen to have a challenging year in terms of fundraising activities, said Preqin in its survey or more than 500 hedge fund managers and institutional investors from around the world.
Preqin stated, "Although fundraising looks set to be challenging in 2016, there are some fund types and strategies that may have a more successful year than others, in terms of capital inflows from investors. The more liquid strategies are the most attractive to investors in 2016 – equity strategies, macro strategies and managed futures/CTAs all look set to see the largest inflows in 2016."
The survey also found that a significant number of fund managers, or 43% of the respondents who are planning to launch a new fund, said they are looking to launch equity-focused funds this year. Not surprisingly, the fund managers believe that they expect equity strategies to be the best performing in 2016. Some 26% of fund managers believe equity strategies will perform the best in 2016, while 17% of fund managers believe macro strategies will perform the best this year.
However, fund managers have a mixed outlook on the success of CTAs in 2016. Approximately equal proportions believe it will be the best and worst performing strategy over this year.
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