Exchange-listed hedge funds: The last ones voted off the island

Mar 11th, 2010 | Filed under: Academic Research, Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff

Given the market disaster that was 2008, one would expect that any alternative investment firm that dipped its toe into the equity offering market is worse the wear for becoming publicly held.

From London-based and London Stock Exchange-listed Marshall Wace on down to the many littler guys who lined up to list on the Irish exchange and others, both for permanent capital raising and for getting the rubber-stamp approval of being listed, it’s been a kind of given that in hindsight the efforts of going public weren’t really worth it. More…


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  1. Friday links: rumor time Abnormal Returns March 12th, 2010 12:56 pm :

    [...] Why hedge funds like to list on an exchange…survival.  (All About Alpha) [...]

  2. FT Alphaville » Further reading March 15th, 2010 4:02 am :

    [...] – I Will Survive!: or, the merits of hedge fund IPOs. [...]

  3. Harvard and Yale Endowment 2009 Reports – World Beta – Engineering Targeted Returns and Risk March 17th, 2010 3:24 pm :

    [...] Listed vs. non-listed from AllAboutAlpha. [...]

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