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Hedge fund liquidations outpace launches for the third year in a row

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

A total of 601 hedge fund launches and 730 liquidations were recorded in 2018, marking a third consecutive year in which hedge fund closure activities outpace launches.

Among these funds launched last year, 22.2% charged no less than 2% management fees, and 55.5% of them charged at least 20% performance fees, said Eurekahedge hedge fund industry report.

Going into 2019, 67 launches were recorded thus far and 10.3% of which charged at least 2% management fees.

Despite the strong performance of the hedge fund industry, preliminary data......................

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