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Most elite hedge funds do not have open slots. New capital is from existing LPs.

July 30, 2009

Analysis of:Hedge fund assets soar by $100bn | business.timesonline.co.uk

Endowments, and other active HF investors are in dire terror of not meeting their budgets for the next fiscal year their appetites for risk have magnified. It is not greed but fear. As the PE funds have no place to put capital to work right now, HFs are the main beneficiary (domestic Life Science VCs have raised money) of income and capital gain hungry institutions. Alot of capital expenditures, scholarships and pensions are being put at risk without a full understanding.

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