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From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: In Barrons, Michael Malo, executive vice president in charge of hedge funds at Caisse de depot et placement due Quebec, the firm which places the Quebec Government pension and insurance plans (approx $155.4bln), explained that even in light of the financial market turmoil and hedge fund industry performance, his alternative investment weightings would not be changing (Source).

However, within the hedge fund segment of those investments, Malo did expect to make changes such as diversification by decreasing individual manager investments and increasing fund of funds holdings from 10% to 40%. On top of risk focused asset shifts amongst fund types such as this, the industry is additionally seeing investor shifts across strategies.

The credit space is one such strategy highly anticipated to offer vast opportunity as the credit crunch cycles through the global markets. Tomorrow (Wednesday, November 5th) South Florida Hedge Fund Managers association is hosting a panel discussion to delve into the merits and opportunities of this space, (Opalesque has learned that a few seats do remain, for more information see here).

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