As Hedge Fund Fee Issue Heats Up, Allocators Focus on Smaller Funds, Risk Premia

Looking at the hedge fund panoply, Barclays Prime Services Capital Solutions Group has a unique perspective. Speaking with investors on a daily basis they get a discretionary sense of trends occurring in the field. But it is not until they take a statistical survey of the action that they can connect logical dots. It is here where the bank’s hedge fund experts note subtle trend changes taking place among institutional investor needs, in both hedge fund fee demands as well as selection criteria, that speaks to larger issues. Hedge fund managers under fire The February Hedge Fund Pulse report titled…