EUROPE - Institutional investors dropped hedge funds and shifted allocations to fixed income following the Madoff scandal and disappointing returns during the fourth quarter of 2008, a survey by Mandatewire has revealed.
Data showed investors in Scandinavia, where alternative investments had been gaining ground in recent years, as well as in Germany and Switzerland, were abandoning hedge funds in their masses as th...
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