2010 New Wave of Capital for Hedge Funds

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As 2010 begins the Hedge Fund industry looks at a new wave of investment from institutional investors.   Some Global Pension Funds are vastly under-funded from past traditional strategies in markets that have moved cumulatively side to side for several years and are jumping into the hedge fund space head first rather than dipping their toes. 

Max Gottschalk, head of Gottex, says "There has been a clear change of attitude toward hedge funds between 2009 and now. Many institutions say they will up allocations, and private investors who stayed on the sidelines for much of 2009 are now coming back," 

Further, Gottschalk says, "individual investors and private banks are likely to focus on the more liquid hedge fund strategies while institutions were likely to diversify across all strategies." and "Some of the less liquid strategies like relative value and convertible arbitrage did extremely well in 2009 and the environment seems good for 2010. These strategies will likely attract institutional investors,"

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