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Hedge-Fund Investors Aren't Expecting a Performance Bump in 2018

Hedge-Fund Investors Aren't Expecting a Performance Bump in 2018

(Bloomberg) -- Investors are returning to hedge funds amid hopes that the recent jump in volatility and pending interest-rate hikes in the U.S. will provide a fertile hunting ground for the money pools.

It could be a turning point for an underperforming industry that was held back for years by central-bank money printing. Yet investors including family offices, endowments, foundations and pension funds are keeping their expectations for 2018 muted and targeting 8.2 percent returns -- in line with last year.

Hedge-Fund Investors Aren't Expecting a Performance Bump in 2018

Other points from Deutsche Bank’s 2018 Alternative Investment Survey:

  • Event-driven funds will continue to see increased demand after receiving $6.9 billion of inflows in the fourth quarter of last year
  • Western Europe is now the most sought-after region, with 37 percent of investors planning to add exposure there, versus 17 percent in the 2017 survey
  • One in five investors plans to increase allocations to long-short funds

To contact the reporters on this story: Suzy Waite in London at swaite8@bloomberg.net, Nishant Kumar in London at nkumar173@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Neil Callanan at ncallanan@bloomberg.net, Paul Armstrong

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