Coming ready or not: do Europe's pension funds know what they're doing?
While six in 10 European institutional investors say they're well informed of hedge fund risks, only 29% are in a position to conduct their own risk analysis, according to Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Mathieu Vaissié surveys the landscape
As part of an extensive research programme on hedge funds, EDHEC carried out a recent survey on the hedge fund diversification practices of European institutional investors: the EDHEC European Alternative Diversification Practices Survey.
We provide here a summary of the conclusions drawn from the analysis of the answers given by the 150 institutional investors who answered our questionnaire.
A slight majority of European institutional investors (51%) have already gained exposure to hedge fund
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