Hedge Fund Allocations Growing, Barclays Notes, As Market Neutral Benefits

Institutional investors are bullish towards alternatives and are 4.5 times more likely to increase hedge fund allocations than to reduce them over the next six months, a significantly more bullish view than at the beginning of 2015, a Barclays Capital report observes. The Barclays report comes as the HSBC Hedge Weekly publication shows that winners and losers in the hedge fund world are correlating, to various degrees, to investor sentiment.

Institutional investors like hedge funds, altering the traditional 60 / 40 stock portfolio

Investors in the Barclay Capital “Midyear 2015 Global Hedge Fund Industry Trends and Allocation Outlook” have, on average, their largest portfolio allocation...