{"id":36937,"date":"2013-07-24T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36937"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T16:26:57","slug":"survey-hedge-funds-focus-on-longshort-equity-and-event-driven-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/survey-hedge-funds-focus-on-longshort-equity-and-event-driven-strategies.html","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Hedge Funds Focus On Long\/Short Equity and Event-driven Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/survey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21732\" alt=\"survey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/survey-295x300.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/survey-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/survey.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Credit Suisse\u00a0polled 185 institutional investors on their strategy and allocation activity for\u00a0its mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Survey.\u00a088% of institutional investors said that they plan to make additional allocations to hedge funds during the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, respondents were asked to share their insights into whether they are planning to allocate, maintain or decrease allocations to various hedge fund strategies in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The top 3 strategies that investors were interested in, in the US and Asia, were,\u00a0Long\/Short Equity- Fundamental (57%), Event Driven (47%) and Global Macro (39%)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From this mid-year survey, it is clear that investors remain focused on long\/short equity and event-driven strategies, particularly those involving fundamental approaches,&#8221; said Robert Leonard, Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Services at Credit Suisse.<\/p>\n<p>Going into more detail, Credit Suisse said: &#8220;When evaluated on a gross basis (straight percentage increasing allocation), respondents believed that Long\/Short Equity- Fundamental strategies are likely to see the most gross allocation activity in the second half of this year, with 61% of global investors surveyed indicating that they plan to allocate, followed by Event Driven, with 51% planning to allocate. Conversely, investors indicated that Commodities funds are likely to see the most redemption activity over the next six months, with 32% indicating that they plan to lower their allocation to the strategy, followed by Emerging Markets Credit, with 29% planning to reduce their allocation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Credit Suisse\u00a0polled 185 institutional investors on their strategy and allocation activity for\u00a0its mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Survey.\u00a088% of institutional investors said that they plan to make additional allocations to hedge funds during the second half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36940,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937\/revisions\/36940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}