2008 Returns in Perspective – The Difference between Small and Large Hedge Funds
Serge Berger
AlternativeSoft
January 2009
As we look back at the untamed securities markets that defined 2008, we naturally have to ask ourselves which asset classes performed the least poorly. To do this, we use the software platform on AlternativeSoft, which enables us to run statistics on individual funds, as well as on a group of hedge funds. Using ‘Asset Search’ function, we divided the assets under management (AuM) of the hedge fund universe into four buckets of different sizes1 as shown in Table 1 below.
