Opalesque – Patrick Hayes, head of hedge fund operations, Ireland for State Street’s International Fund Services (IFS), is in an excellent position to assess developments in the global hedge fund industry. Some 1000 people work for State Street’s IFS in Dublin, where the hedge fund business administers some circa $330bn of the $680bn of funds under State Street’s global remit. These figures were augmented through last year’s purchase of Goldman Sachs’ fund administration business.
State Street has recently conducted a research project with Preqin of almost 200 hedge fund managers in North America, Europe and Asia and the findings reveal that the alternatives industry is set to change dramatically over the next five years.
