SF Chronicle – Investors may add about $80 billion of new capital to hedge funds globally this year, the most since 2007, Barclays Plc said in a report.
About 56 percent of investors surveyed by Barclays plan to increase such investments in the coming year, more than seven times the number that plan to reduce their allocations, the U.K. bank said in an e-mailed statement dated Jan. 13. Endowments, foundations, private banks and public pensions will most likely be the sources of new capital to the industry, it said.
