Advisors Survey: Hedge funds are dead. Long live hedge funds!
Nov 4th, 2007 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry TrendsOkay, we know that title is totally cliche, but read on and you’ll probably agree that it actually applies in this case…
Morningstar has teamed up with Research Magazine to conduct their second annual survey of advisor attitudes toward alternative investments. This year’s edition contains some startling conclusions: that advisors believe alternative investments will become less relevant over the next 5 years, that advisors are not interested in 130/30 funds and that a large amount of advisors feel their allocations to alternative investments will grow less than 10% per annum for the next 5 years. Not surprisingly, these findings have prompted some dour headlines about alternative investments falling out of favour.
Are alternative investments dying? What gives?
A closer reading of the article (available here on one screen, rather than 5 separate ones) reveals some interesting twists – some of which suggest that advisors may not be so sour on alternatives after all.
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