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Over a third of schemes see high fees as an obstacle to hedge fund investing

Kim Kaveh

27 September 2018 • 2 min read

Some 38% of pension schemes say high management fees are an obstacle to investing in hedge funds, research from the Asset Management Exchange (AMX) has found.

A similar portion (32%) cited insufficient risk reporting, while just over a quarter blamed "difficulty of comparing fund performance". Meanwhile, one quarter cited inability to govern individual f...

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