Survival of the fattest? Can smaller hedge fund houses survive pension funds' push?

As pension funds enter the hedge fund fray, is there a place for smaller hedge fund houses, and what will decide the winners from also-rans in the resulting Darwinian struggle? KPMG's Giles Drury and Neil Fatharly investigate

Many analysts are predicting that the overall market growth of the hedge fund sector will slow over the next few years, having seen tremendous growth over the previous decade.

However, as the industry matures, there are likely to be significant opportunities for specialised hedge fund and FoHF strategies dealing more with emerging institutional-investor groups - a cycle that is not totally dissimilar to the one witnessed by the long-only sector in the 1990's.

The impact of institutional investors

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