Hedge Fund Investors Eager For More Transparency [STUDY]

Hedge funds and their investors are aligned on most points regarding the industry’s direction with one significant exception, a recent study from the Northern Trust bank shows. That issue is transparency. In surveying 303 major institutional investors and 118 hedge funds, the study discovered almost a complete dichotomy when it came to an investor’s visibility into their hedge fund investments. While 55 percent of institutional investors would like additional transparency into their hedge fund investments, fully 98 percent of hedge funds think their investors are satisfied with the transparency they provide. Northern Trust: In wake of financial crisis regulators want…