Source: Barclays
Diving into some data on Hedge Funds, I happened across some research by Barclays. This was the noteworthy paragraph:
“Investors remain committed to hedge funds despite the recent poor performance. For 2019 we expect to see a significant amount of reallocations, roughly $350 billion of ‘money in motion’ from investors’ reallocations across strategies and managers. However, on a net basis, we are projecting outflows from the industry of $20-50 billion.”
I find it fascinating how hedge funds have performed since the Great Financial Crisis: For the two decades prior, hedge funds had significantly outperformed their benchmarks over. AUM had risen to $1.4 trillion in total assets by 2008. That great run ended post-financial crisis. By 2015, assets doubled to nearly ~$3 trillion. But the performance, for reasons still being debated, faltered.
Hedge funds have seen 6 continuous quarters of capital outflows. This is unprecedented — greater than even the outflows during the GFC.
One alternatives losses are another’s gains, and the outflows from HFs mostly seem to be going to private equity.
More on this later in the week…
Sources:
Crossing currents: 2019 Global hedge fund industry outlook
Barclays, 28 Feb 2019
http://bit.ly/2NBmR51
Hedge fund industry sees 6th consecutive quarter of outflows
HedgeWeek, 24/10/2019
ttp://bit.ly/33FR4Wc
Source: Barclays
