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Investors Have Earned $1.5 Trillion From Hedge Funds Since 2005

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Mark Melin
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Benchmarking changes in hedge fund transparency and understanding managed account structures provides institutional investors a very different look inside hedge funds

One in every four dollars, roughly $700 billion out of well over $2 trillion, is invested in hedge funds by public and private sector pension funds, a recent joint report from the Alternative Investment Management Association and the CAIA Association reveals. Over the past decade hedge funds have delivered $1.5 trillion after management fees are considered. But the point of a hedge fund is not entirely absolute returns, but protection of assets during large equity market “drawdowns,” the report noted, as it provided a roadmap for institutional investors to understand the role hedge funds play in an

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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.