Hedge fund seeding: “hot” or “not”?
Jun 26th, 2008 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends
A few years ago, before social networking was all the rage, a website called “Hot or Not” was launched to allow webs surfers to post their photo and generate, shall we say, feedback on their appearance. Today, the site is used to canvas users on everything from American Idol candidates to political candidates (example: Obama seems to be totally smoking McCain)
But strangely absent from the line-up is hedge fund seeding. The strategy seems to run hot and cold and would surely have elicited some chippy debate. (okay, maybe not).
At the beginning of this year, seeding was hot (see related posting). Then it was not (see related posting). And with the continuation of a difficult fundraising environment for hedge funds, seeding is hot again. In fact, it was in the news several times last week.
eFinancial News reports on HFR data showing that new hedge fund launches are at their lowest level in 8 years. One reason, suggests eFinancial News…
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