Some perspective on hedge funds

Are we getting to the point that the number of hedge funds will inevitably rise past the number of stocks out there? Seems likely. Some new data from Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management finds there now are nearly 10,000 hedge funds. That's twice as many hedge funds as there were in 2002 and three times as many as in 2000. Nearly 40 percent of those hedge funds are no more than two years old. Not even a massive credit crisis has put much of a dent in those numbers. What we're seeing is the kind of maturation that characterized the early days of the mutual fund industry. A lot of back office-like infrastructure work still needs to be done, but the industry is here to stay.  

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- here's an item from the Institutional Investor Web site

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