Opalesque – Preqin research shows that the number of public pension systems investing in hedge funds has increased significantly over the past four years.
There are now 295 public pension plans worldwide known to be allocating to hedge funds, up from 196 in 2007. The mean allocation to the asset class has also grown in the same period from 3.6% to 6.6%; it is now one percentage point higher than the average private equity allocation of these investors.
