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Money managers under the microscope
Mutual funds gaining ground on hedge funds?
Hedge funds have gained a increasing share of the investment pie in recent years but the trend could could be reversing, judging by separate comments made by UBS and Deutsche Bank on Tuesday.
Timothy Bell, global head of hedge funds advisory at UBS Wealth Management, said hedge fund assets could fall further to $1.2 trillion this quarter from $1.4 trillion at the end of 2008 and $1.93 trillion at their peak in mid-2008.
At the same time, Deutsche Bank’s DWS unit said it saw inflows into its Asian mutual funds in the first six weeks of 2009.
New Star a timely boost for Henderson
Henderson’s purchase of struggling New Star looks a good way of quickly beefing up its falling hedge fund assets — at a time when the industry is seeing investors pull out their cash left, right and centre.
Henderson saw 400 million pounds in hedge fund outflows in the second half of 2008 — 100 million pounds in Q3 and 300 million pounds in Q4 — helping push assets down to 800 million pounds at the year-end.
