Following poor performance in late 2015 and early 2016, hedge fund industry news has generally been negative. Despite significant improvements over Q2 and Q3, investor sentiment has been difficult to change. Nearly all of the $71.4bn gained in assets in 2015 have been wiped out, with reported outflo…

Preqin’s latest survey of over 490 institutional investors globally shows that while alternative assets remain a crucial component of many portfolios, investors are finding it harder to identify attractive investment opportunities compared to a year ago. With a record-high 2,798 private capital fund…

Institutional investors are a vital source of capital for the alternative assets industry and, as the industry matures, private equity and hedge funds have come to play an increasingly important role in investors’ portfolios. Preqin’s Private Equity Online and Hedge Fund Online track over 6,200 inst…

Europe-based public pension funds represent a fifth of the global population of public pension funds investing in hedge funds. However, according to Preqin’s Hedge Fund Online, the number of Europe-based public pension funds active in the asset class has fallen over recent years from a peak of 121 a…

Preqin’s Hedge Fund Online service currently tracks 951 private wealth investors (consisting of family offices and wealth managers) and 1,516 endowment plans and foundations that are actively investing in the hedge fund asset class. While there are some similarities in how these investors operate in…

According to Preqin’s Hedge Fund Investor Profiles database on Hedge Fund Online, private wealth institutions represent nearly a fifth of the 4,935 institutional investors in hedge funds we track, with New York home to one in nine of these private wealth firms. Managers looking to secure private wea…

Preqin’s Hedge Fund Investor Profiles database on Hedge Fund Online contains detailed information on 118 public pension funds and superannuation schemes located in Asia-Pacific. Similar to their US- and Europe-based counterparts, Asia-Pacific-headquartered public pension funds and superannuation sch…

As one of the leading financial centres in Asia, Singapore has become a significant source of capital for the hedge fund industry. According to Preqin’s Hedge Fund Investor Profiles module on Hedge Fund Online, there are currently 62 hedge fund investors based in Singapore, managing approximately $1…

Preqin monitors 741 institutional investors with an active interest in funds of hedge funds, currently the most popular investment style utilised by hedge fund investors. However, there was a decline in the proportion of investors with an active preference for funds of funds over 2009 compared to 20…