Saturday, February 12, 2011

Hedge Funds Are Back!

Investors poured $6.6 billion into hedge funds in December 2010 according to a joint report by Trimtabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge.  It was the sixth month in a row that funds experienced inflows and brings assets under management by hedge funds up to $1.7 trillion.  Winning strategies are emerging markets ($5.8 billion), global macro ($3 billion) and fixed income ($2.5 billion).  Fund of hedge funds had redemptions of $1.3 billion.

Managers are also doing better in 2010 with 50% of them collecting performance/incentive fees.  60% of them have recovered losses from the credit crisis in 2008.

The article can be read here.

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