Monday, April 09, 2012

Hedge funds and leverage

Hedge funds keep a lid on leverage - FT.com: "According to the UK’s Financial Services Authority, which in February published its annual survey of the global hedge fund industry, the average hedge fund currently uses leverage of about 2.5 times its capital – as it has done for the past three years.
Indeed, unlike prop desks, most hedge funds have to grapple with all too finite liquidity and financing – issues no manager has been able to ignore since 2008."

How the leverage has been reduced as pro trading transfers from investment banks to hedge funds.

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