Hedge funds and their investors are aligned on most points regarding the industry’s direction with one significant exception, a recent study from the Northern Trust bank shows. That issue is transparency. In surveying 303 major institutional investors and 118 hedge funds, the study discovered almost a complete dichotomy when it came to an investor’s visibility into their hedge fund investments. While 55 percent of institutional investors would like additional transparency into their hedge fund investments, fully 98 percent of hedge funds think their investors are satisfied with the transparency they provide. Northern Trust: In wake of financial crisis regulators want…
Hedge Fund Investors Eager For More Transparency [STUDY]
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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