This inaugural edition of the Eurekahedge asset flow report collates historical assets under management (AuM) information on a sample of close to 6,400 hedge funds and 2,700 funds of hedge funds listed in the Eurekahedge Alternative Investment databases, in an effort to estimate the size and nature of asset flows in the global hedge fund industry.
In view of the nature of information collection in the hedge fund space, a lag of a month is to be expected in our coverage of asset flows. As a result, this report includes quarter-wise asset flow estimates up to December 2007. As this is the first edition of the report, we have also included our estimates on flows since December 2005. Going forward, this will be a regular feature of our monthly newsletter, together with our existing comprehensive reportage on hedge fund performance trends. For this month, we have also included the month-to-date estimated asset flow figures1 for the latest reported month (January 2008), which will be updated in a full-fledged report in the coming month as AuM data become fully available. Click here for a brief on the January 2008 month-to-date asset flow estimates.
In the report, after accounting for the growth/decline in assets owing to performance, asset flows have been broken down into the following three categories:
Inflows from new launches (+)
Outflows from liquidation of funds (-)
Flows from subsequent investment (+) / redemption (-)
The hedge fund asset flow data are further broken down by strategy employed, region of investment and manager location.
