Preqin Study Shows Hedge Funds Satisfaction Takes A Hit

Institutional investors allocating towards hedge funds have very different performance expectations as do the same investors allocating to private equity. In Preqin’s first half investor outlook for alternative investments, the institutional investors surveyed expressed increasing dissatisfaction with hedge funds while private equity and a move towards absolute return investments were shining.

Hedge funds receiving lowered future allocations, Preqin report indicates

When 460 institutional investors were asked in a global survey to reveal their thoughts on investment logic behind alternatives, respondents ranging from pension funds, foundations, family offices, endowments and many others gave generally bad grades to hedge funds where...