[lbo-talk] another ignorant question

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 22 04:41:09 PDT 2010


On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:


> noted in the Economist's weekly roundup:
>
> *Hedge funds* saw assets jump by a total of $120 billion in the third
> quarter, the biggest rise in three years, according to Hedge Fund Research,
> which monitors the industry’s performance. Total assets invested in the
> hedge-fund industry stood at $1.77 trillion.
>
> What exactly is the significance of this? Is the asset growth a combination
> of new investment and better returns?

That's a rise of less than 7%, which isn't enormous, but yeah, money is coming back into hedge funds. They're probably getting slightly better returns, though not dramatically so.

Doug



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