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Preqin Study Shows Hedge Funds Satisfaction Takes A Hit

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Mark Melin
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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.

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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...

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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.