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Top Hedge Fund List Reveals Truism

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Mark Melin
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The top list of Institutional Investor’s hedge fund list reveals a truism about institutional investors without saying it out loud.

Top Hedge Fund List Reveals Truism

Favor given to largest hedge funds

Hedge fund assets grew in 2013 by 9.7 percent, to $2.85 trillion, according hedge fund data provider eVestment, while the top 100 funds, the upper percent, account for more than half of total industry assets, and their share has been increasing, an article in Institutional Investor noted.

The issue is the asset disparity between the top 2% of hedge funds and the balance of the hedge fund community -- call this "asset inequality" -- continues to grow wider.

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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.