Institutional investors are bullish towards alternatives and are 4.5 times more likely to increase hedge fund allocations than to reduce them over the next six months, a significantly more bullish view than at the beginning of 2015, a Barclays Capital report observes. The Barclays report comes as the HSBC Hedge Weekly publication shows that winners and losers in the hedge fund world are correlating, to various degrees, to investor sentiment. Institutional investors like hedge funds, altering the traditional 60 / 40 stock portfolio Investors in the Barclay Capital “Midyear 2015 Global Hedge Fund Industry Trends and Allocation Outlook” have, on…
Hedge Fund Allocations Growing, Barclays Notes, As Market Neutral Benefits
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.