Assets in European hedge funds ticked up again in the first half of 2011 – rising by some 4% from January to the end of the June, despite weak H1 performance across the industry as a whole in the face of a hugely volatile and fragile global financial market environment.
The annual mid-year survey by the EuroHedge research and data team shows European hedge fund assets continuing to grow again this year, on the back of an 11% rise during 2010 – increasing from $423 billion at the start of the year to $438 billion at the end of June.
Whereas more than half of the increase in assets in 2010 was the result of performance gains – with the EuroHedge Composite index up by some 6.3% during the year – all of the increase in the first half of 2011 has come from investor inflows, with the EuroHedge Composite index showing...