WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – A new poll conducted by JP Morgan Asset Management shows that new trading opportunities will come from international equities as well as from hedge fund offunds operations. According to the new released study, which surveyed 125 managers, and advisors, international equities will offer managers decent trading opportunities as growth in the emergingmarkets economies continues to gather momentum.
China has seen significant growth in its economy, and experts believe that the Chinese economy will continue to grow in the coming years. Indian economy is also expanding, according to analysts, the economies of both India and China will be driving the Asian economic engine to newer heights.
According to the J.P. Morgan poll, over 40 percent of the managers surveyed believe that emerging market equities will offer the most profitable trading opportunities to alternative investment managers. Only 11 percent of the group believe that U.S.Large Cap firms will offer such opportunity to fund managers.
About 36 percent of the surveyed managers also believe that long/short strategy will be the most hopeful hedge fund strategy over the coming two years. Only 18 percent of the group believe that the best trading opportunities will come from global macro strategies; while 7 percent chose Relative value investment strategies as the most hopeful strategy for the coming two years. The managers agree that fund of hedge funds categories have seen increased popularity among hedge fund investors. Part of the reason for such popularity is because instructional investors such as pension funds and endowments have a higher preference for fund of hedge funds investment vehicles due to its diversification potentials. Of the 125 polled managers 73 percent disclosed that their clients have invested in fund of hedge fund management portfolios.
Sharon Weinberg, head of the Institutional Advisory business for JP Morgan Fund said, �The alternative asset class is clearly an area of interest for affluent investors.” Winberg added, “Sophisticated independent financial advisors acknowledge and are aware of risks, but are reasonably optimistic that the portfolios they construct can act independently of traditional markets and provide consistent returns.�
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