This is Money – Institutional investors are still running scared from hedge funds after last year’s bloodbath, figures from sector giant Man Group show.
They pulled a net £2bn from Man Group in the first quarter of its financial year. Confidence in hedge funds has been rocked by their poor performance of late.
Keith Baird, analyst at Oriel Securities, said 2008 destroyed the entire theory of hedge funds ability to produce positive returns in any market. He said: ‘The illusion was shattered.’
