Hedge Fund Industry Assets To Increase $250B By Summer Of 2016: Agecroft

Agecroft Partners Predicts Hedge Fund Industry Assets To Increase A Quarter Trillion Dollars By Summer Of 2016

This is an update to an article I wrote last summer explaining why the hedge fund industry assets were reaching all-time highs, despite underperforming the S&P 500 index. This is more relevant today as hedge fund industry assets continue to set new records.

There has been a constant flow of negative stories about the hedge fund industry over the past couple years including the insider trading scandals, hedge fund fees being  too high, hedge fund  performance comparing badly versus the S&P 500 index, and CalPERS divesting of hedge funds. Many of these articles suggest that...