Activist Hedge Fund Returns

Activist Hedge Funds Attract $3.9 in New Net Assets during Q1 2015

Following to hedge-fund research firm HFR, activist hedge funds attracted $3.9 billion in new net assets during Q1 2015, along with investment gains that brings the aggregate activist war chest to $127.5 billion.
That’s a record aggregate total, and nearly double where the industry was at the end of 2012, when it had $65.5 billion.
That growth in the quarter shows that the asset class continues to draw attention from investors even with their coffers so full.
To put the first-quarter gain into perspective: Last year there were $14.2 billion in net asset flows, which eclipsed the net flows added in aggregate over the previous decade – which was dragged down by $16.6 billion in outflows in 2008 and 2009.
This year has started out on pace to top that. There was $3.5 billion added in the first quarter last year.
Still, 2015 would need a few more big quarters to top last year, when the second quarter saw $5.9 billion in inflows and the fourth quarter saw $4.1 billion, the two highest three-month totals in HFR’s records.
Activism remains a relatively tiny space compared to the broader hedge fund industry where there is $2.94 trillion in total assets, according to HFR.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Related to: Hedge Fund Update

Tags: Hedge Fund of Funds Business, Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds, Fund of Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund of Funds, Hedge Fund Industry, Hedge Fund Group, Hedge Fund Market, Hedge Fund Investments, Hedge Fund Advisory Firm, Hedge Fund Returns, HFR.