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In the week ending August 28th 2022, a survey revealed that investors are experiencing growing interest in hedge funds as a way to take risk off the table - a total of 76% of survey respondents said they plan to increase or maintain their allocations to hedge funds in the next 12 months, up from 63% in the survey a year ago.

However, hedge fund industry AUM declined by $15.6bn in July, extending the streak of consecutive monthly AuM decline to four months as investors pulled $18.8bn from the industry despite performance-based gains of $3.1bn, said Eurekahedge Report. The industry stands at $4.01tn as at July 2022. YTD industry AUM decline increased to $123.7bn in July, driven by $39.8bn of performance-based decline and $83.9bn of net outflows.

The pace of hedge fund redemptions accelerated in June 2022 to -$42.14 billion, equivalent to a reduction of industry AUM of -0.83% according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator published by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. A -$173.10 billion trading loss in June brought total hedge fund industry assets to $4.87 trillion as the month ended.

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