{"id":4056,"date":"2006-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"record-hedge-fund-launches-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2006\/record-hedge-fund-launches-in-2005.html","title":{"rendered":"Record hedge-fund launches in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  MarketWatch &#8211; <strong>A record number of hedge funds launched and liquidated in 2005, suggesting that the industry remains buoyant but increasingly competitive, Hedge Fund Research said  Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<p>    HFR, which tracks hedge-fund performance, said that 2,073 funds started last year, while 848 funds liquidated. That&#8217;s up from 1,435 launches and 296 closures in 2004, the firm added.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<p>    The attrition rate, which measures the proportion of funds that drop out of HFR&#8217;s database as a percentage of the total, was 11.4% in 2005. That&#8217;s nearly triple the 4.7% in 2004 and the highest    level on record, HFR reported.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<p>    Hedge funds historically have been niche private-investment partnerships for wealthy individuals and some institutions. But the industry has ballooned in recent years, and at least 8,000 managers    now oversee more than $1 trillion in assets.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<p>    That growth has sparked concerns that less-talented managers have moved into the industry, increasing the chances of poor performance and fund closures.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<p>    &#8220;The data show that this remains an enormously active marketplace, with new funds entering and exiting at a higher rate than ever before,&#8221; said Josh Rosenberg, president of HFR, in a statement.    &#8220;But it is also an unforgiving environment, as the current record level of attrition shows.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/1-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp%3Fguid%3D%257B39C23368-C91D-4ED1-BD0C-9CD105BC404E%257D%26siteid%3Dgoogle&amp;cid=1104677661\">  Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch &#8211; A record number of hedge funds launched and liquidated in 2005, suggesting that the industry remains buoyant but increasingly competitive, Hedge Fund Research said Tuesday. HFR, which tracks hedge-fund performance, said that 2,073 funds started last year, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}