{"id":7667,"date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"investors-expect-hedge-funds-to-raise-200bn-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2008\/investors-expect-hedge-funds-to-raise-200bn-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Investors expect hedge funds to raise $200bn this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Financial News Online – Investors anticipate a record-beating net inflow of $200bn (€130m) into hedge funds in 2008 despite the fact that fundraising in the first three months was at one of its lowest levels for years.<\/p>\n

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Investors with $4.5 trillion of assets told Deutsche Bank<\/span>‘s capital raising group, on average, that they expected another $200bn of assets to flow into hedge funds this year.<\/p>\n

This would beat last year’s record of $195bn and come well ahead of the $126bn raised in 2006 and $99bn raised in 2002, the previous record years, according to US data provider Hedge Fund Research<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank said investors were aware that the net inflow into hedge funds in the first three months of this year, at $16.5bn, was the lowest net inflow of any first three months in four years.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Bank also said investors’ optimism about the hedge fund market was "at odds with their generally bearish economic outlook."<\/p>\n

The bank’s survey said only 7% of investors felt bullish for 2008, while 80% said they felt bearish.<\/p>\n

The bank estimated that $75bn of cash was sitting on the sidelines, waiting for a good opportunity to be invested.<\/p>\n

It said: "Over 30% of investors are holding cash, and most commonly at levels somewhere between 5% and 10% of their own hedge fund portfolios.<\/p>\n

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