Tag Archives: performance losses


Hedge funds to shape up as investors crack the whip

Reuters UK – Hedge funds are going to have to dance to their investors’ tune once more as lucrative profits fall and a new breed of clients begins flexing its muscles, demanding more results from managers. Institutional clients, a growing […]

Hope for hedge funds

Stuff – Hedge funds meeting for their annual get-together in Monaco this week are hoping recovering profits will help placate clients, after the industry was heavily culled and suffered its worst year on record. An exodus of investors followed a […]

Battered hedgies see cause for hope at Monaco summit

Reuters – Hedge funds meeting for their annual get-together in Monaco next week are hoping recovering profits will help placate clients, after the industry was heavily culled and suffered its worst year on record. An exodus of investors followed a […]

Survey Reports $1.64 Trillion In Hedge Fund Assets

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The top 10 hedge fund adminstraators reported $1.64 trillion in hedge fund assets under administration (AuA) in the Q4 2008, according to HFN, with Citco Fund Services, State Street Alternative Investment Solutions and Goldman Sachs […]

Hedge funds see $159-bn outflows in Oct-Dec period

Business Standard – Spooked by increasing performance losses and record investor redemptions, the global hedge fund industry saw net outflows worth $158.91 billion in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2008, the highest level since 1994. According to a report […]

Hedge firm GLG assets fall

Reuters – Hedge fund GLG Partners reported a further drop in assets on Thursday and said the cycle of investor redemptions in the industry was not yet over despite its funds’ performance perking up in January. The London-based, New York-listed […]