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Economic uncertainty and stagnation have become uncomfortably familiar terms to the investor community during this historically challenging era of low interest rates and low yields. Even eternal optimists will have had their work cut out maintaining a positive outlook in recent years but with encouraging signs starting to emerge from the US, and with Asian markets representing the growth story du jour, are there signs that a corner has at last been turned?

The downturn has created a number of regional imbalances, with markets now moving through a period recently described by the IMF as, “global three-speed recovery”, but one of the constants throughout the crisis has been investor appetite for hedge funds. Despite regulatory change and altering attitudes towards fee structures, a recent survey highlighted that institutional investors now account for almost 75% of the hedge fund industry’s assets. How have hedge fund managers been able to adapt to market conditions and tailor their investment strategies accordingly? What have investors been forced to do differently since the recession took hold? Will they now start to increase their risk exposure as the pressure mounts to find growth?

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