{"id":8860,"date":"2008-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"funds-of-hedge-funds-a-diminishing-slice-of-a-growing-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/funds-of-hedge-funds-a-diminishing-slice-of-a-growing-pie.html","title":{"rendered":"Funds of Hedge Funds: &#8216;A Diminishing Slice Of a Growing Pie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; As the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122385551752227093.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a> earlier this week, <em>&ldquo;It may be premature to write the epitaph for funds of hedge funds&rdquo;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe so, but with predictions for redemptions running in the high teens for this fall, one would be excused for believing the hedge fund &ldquo;bubble&rdquo; has burst along with the many other bubbles inflated over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, WSJ sister publication, eFinancial news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/homepage\/content\/2452140776\" target=\"_blank\">reports <\/a>this week that: <em>&ldquo;Pensions Continue Push into Hedge Funds&rdquo;<\/em>.&nbsp; This seems to back up what research firm Cerulli recently concluded &#8211; that institutions are continuing to move from long-only to alternative assets (see <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutalpha.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/high-volatility-systemic-risk-inconsistent-alpha-terms-now-associated-with-long-only-investing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday&rsquo;s post<\/a> for clear evidence of this).<\/p>\n<p>Dow Jones points to the UK&rsquo;s University Superannuation Scheme (USS) as one example of the new and more grounded institutional view of hedge funds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Michael Powell, head of alternative assets at the pension scheme, said: &lsquo;The turbulence in the hedge fund industry has provided <span class=\"keywordsearch\">USS<\/span> with a great opportunity as a new entrant. The fallout in the industry will also prove to be a great arbitrator of quality and skill among the huge number of hedge funds.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/99935-funds-of-hedge-funds-a-diminishing-slice-of-a-growing-pie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; As the Wall Street Journal pointed out earlier this week, &ldquo;It may be premature to write the epitaph for funds of hedge funds&rdquo;. Maybe so, but with predictions for redemptions running in the high teens for this [&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":[140,1803,67,956,3192,3191,288,633,372],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alan-greenspan","tag-arch-nemesis","tag-chief-executive","tag-credit-suisse","tag-executive-team","tag-investment-principles","tag-local-economic-development","tag-repercussions","tag-weather-derivatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","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=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}