Statistics of the Global Hedge Fund-Industry within 2016

02.05.2016 / 12:50

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The global hedge fund industry’s asset base contracted US$20.1 billion as of February 2016 year-to-date, with performance-driven losses a main contributor to this contraction. Performance-based losses stood at US$16.6 billion in the first two months of 2016 alone, while investor outflows of US$3.5 billion were recorded. The assets under management (AUM) of the global hedge fund industry currently stand at US$2.22 trillion, managed by a total of 11390 hedge funds. Going into 2016, further easing seems to be a main theme as central bankers worldwide have largely adopted accommodative monetary policies in an attempt to re-energise the current lethargy of the world economy.

The top 5 most popular locations for running a global hedge fund strategy being; United States (5,235 funds), United Kingdom (2,600 funds), Switzerland (794 funds), Hong Kong (507 funds), Luxembourg (384 funds).

The global hedge fund database contains pure hedge funds, commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and long only absolute returns funds. The 73% of the strategies are represented by Long Short Equities (4,433 funds), Fixed Income (1,614 funds), CTA/Managed Futures (1,217 funds), Multi-Strategy (890 funds), Bottom-Up (828 funds).

The most popular fund size of global investing managers is in the US$0 to US$50 million range with 4,125 global hedge fund managers running funds of this size. There are 1,073 funds that are greater than US$1 billion.

Total assets under management in March increased by US$15.53 billion during the month as the sector witnessed a performance-based increase of US$1.06 billion while registering net asset inflows of US$14.47 billion. The total size of the industry now stands at US$2.24 trillion.

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Statistics of the Global Hedge Fund-Industry within 2016

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