Investors Defend Hedge Funds Amid Rush to Passive and Private Strategies

(Reuters) Some big money investors are warning that the rush to cheap stock bets and private asset strategies at the expense of hedge funds may prove costly. “As those trends run their course, it will open up better opportunities for active equity investors,” Eric Alt, co-chief investment officer of $31 billion investment adviser Hall Capital Partners LLC, said Thursday during a panel discussion at the IMN Total Alts 2017 conference in San Francisco. “Our view continues to be that (hedge funds) can play a really valuable role in portfolios,” Hall said, noting that recent industry challenges around low returns were “more cyclical than structural.”

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