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Where Hedge Funds Can Find New Clients – A Relatively Untapped Source Of AUM Growth

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Figure 5 Investor appetite for hedge funds by allocator channel (2022-2025)
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Personal wealth has been growing rapidly around the world, outpacing the growth seen in institutional allocations like defined benefit pensions, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds. This presents a new area of opportunity for hedge funds - an area primed for growth among hedge funds.

Rapidly growing personal wealth

In a recent report from their prime services division, Goldman Sachs estimates that personal wealth now amounts to about $240 trillion, which surpasses the combined assets of the listed institutional investors by fivefold.

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Figure 2 Global personal financial wealth compared to AUM of major allocator types and growth rates (2014-2024)

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.