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Summarizing the State of the Hedge Fund Industry in Japan, Japanese investors make almost 30% of HF inflows of top 10 FOFs, top 10 issues of pension funds with HF investing

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Matthias Knab reports from the HedgeFundsWorld conference in Tokyo: Ferenc Sanderson, Director of Research at Daiwa Securities America, gave an excellent overview on the Japanese industry with the following findings as of mid 2004:

  • 547 Global funds, 190 Japanese focus and 112 Asia incl. Japan focus allocate to Japan
  • Capital after leverage of these funds increases to $84bln
  • Nearly 70% of AUM of Japan dedicated HF is distributed among funds over $250m, however the number of HF ......................

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