Funds Hub
Money managers under the microscope
Morning line-up
Clear thinking in an opaque industry
News and views on the hedge fund sector from Reuters and elsewhere:
Alternative energy hedge funds outperform commodity ones in 2009 - Reuters
Funds of hedge funds trailed recovery - Bloomberg
Fund whose founders are witnesses in Galleon investigation sees outflows – Reuters
Jacob Rothschild moves back into hedge funds - Citywire
Morning line-up
Hedge fund stories from the past 24 hours from Reuters and elsewhere:
Spain favours strict hedge fund rules – Guardian
UK hedge funds to launch onshore vehicles – FT
Fund of hedge funds rethinks fee structure – WSJ
What’s powering the Asian hedge fund rollercoaster – Seeking Alpha
Canadians move back into hedge funds – Reuters
Staying positive
There seems to be an endless wave of bad news hitting the hedge fund industry at the moment — gates and suspensions, record poor performance, the Bernard Madoff scandal and so forth – but there are still one or two reasons to be positive.
According to a survey of institutional investors by alternative assets data group Preqin, conducted in January (and therefore after the alleged Madoff fraud came to light), only 8 percent said they were no longer confident about hedge funds and would reduce investments.
Going global
Global macro and managed futures (CTAs) are still where it’s at, it seems, when it comes to funds of hedge funds.
Nigel Davies’ poll of portfolio managers shows these are the two strategies they are expecting above average returns from in the first half of 2009.
After the storm
The latest update on funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) performance arrives from Fitch Ratings — and it makes for an unsurprisingly sober read.
We perhaps know already that 2008 was the worst year ever for FoHFs, and that cumulative losses reached an all-time high as the year ended with a Madoff-shaped bang. Fitch also raises a fear that managers have shared after imposing redemption restrictions on clients wanting to stash their cash under the proverbial mattress:
