Comments on: The future of hedge funds http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/06/12/the-future-of-hedge-funds/ A slice of lime in the soda Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Eericsonjr http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/06/12/the-future-of-hedge-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-40053 Eericsonjr Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:49:23 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=14925#comment-40053 Institutional investors are piling in while HNW individuals are pulling out. Hedge funds are a vehicle to siphon wealth from the many who are middle income workers (i.e. government employees) to the class of people that wish to destroy such middling peons. Fund of funds=fad. ya think? Paying 2 & 20 not once but several times can't look good for long, even to a wine-and-supermodel-addled public pension trustee. But they will be back under another name. It's all about "choices." Institutional investors are piling in while HNW individuals are pulling out. Hedge funds are a vehicle to siphon wealth from the many who are middle income workers (i.e. government employees) to the class of people that wish to destroy such middling peons.

Fund of funds=fad. ya think? Paying 2 & 20 not once but several times can’t look good for long, even to a wine-and-supermodel-addled public pension trustee.

But they will be back under another name. It’s all about “choices.”

]]> By: FifthDecade http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/06/12/the-future-of-hedge-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-40051 FifthDecade Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:44:10 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=14925#comment-40051 Interesting you should post this today Felix, especially as Oxford University today published a study into how 40% of Hedge Funds have been misleading investors with inaccurate performance figures for up to 15 years... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18341082 Interesting you should post this today Felix, especially as Oxford University today published a study into how 40% of Hedge Funds have been misleading investors with inaccurate performance figures for up to 15 years…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18341 082

]]> By: dWj http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/06/12/the-future-of-hedge-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-40050 dWj Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:42:24 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=14925#comment-40050 Possibly dumb question: does novation of hedge fund investments ever take place? Maybe "precisely the kind of investors that built up the asset class in the first place" invests, but, finding itself unable to meet a capital call or more desiring of liquidity than anticipated, it transfers its interest (at some kind of loss) to an investor who wants in and has more liquidity than it needs. Does that happen? Possibly dumb question: does novation of hedge fund investments ever take place? Maybe “precisely the kind of investors that built up the asset class in the first place” invests, but, finding itself unable to meet a capital call or more desiring of liquidity than anticipated, it transfers its interest (at some kind of loss) to an investor who wants in and has more liquidity than it needs. Does that happen?

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