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As part of the CACEIS research chair on non-financial risks in investment funds, EDHEC-Risk Institute has surveyed UCITS and alternative asset managers, their service providers, external observers, and investors for their views of structuring hedge fund strategies as UCITS. The 437 respondents report assets under management (AUM) of more than EUR13 trillion.
Some of the main results:
Most respondents fear that structuring hedge fund strategies as UCITS will distort strategies and diminish returns. Many strategies, after all, would need to be altered to earn the UCITS label, and liquidity requirements would put the liquidity risk premium out of reach. 69% of participants think that the “liquidity premium of hedge fund strategies will disappear and that performance will...
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