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Australian hedge fund industry faced many asset raising challenges but flows are coming back
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

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Stephen Baldwin Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

The Australian hedge fund industry has faced many challenges in terms of asset raising in the last few years. Participants at the recent Opalesque Australia Roundtable discussed these difficulties, as well as what some large investors seek in hedge fund managers.

According to the 2014 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, the Asia-Pacific region represents 14% of hedge fund managers with the majority of these managers based in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Australian hedge funds managed a total of $33bn in AuM then – compared to an estimated $46.8bn in 2010, according to the Australian Trade Commission, and around $50bn (AU$63bn) in 2007, according to AIMA.

When he was marketing Australian single managers, Damien Hatfield, Head of Distribution for Ascalon Capital Managers, found that the biggest investors were global fund of funds. However, those flows stopped around 2008-2009. Some managers closed as a result of redemptions while others continued on significantly reduced AuM.

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