NEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)–In 2005, funds of hedge funds with more than US$1 billion under management gained more than US$72 billion in assets, according to a survey by London-based InvestHedge. This represented a growth rate of 12% for the year.
But the large fund of funds expansion in 2005 was significantly less than it had been in 2004, when a similar survey found an increase of US$166 billion.
Still, with continuing growth, these US$1 billion-plus firms now oversee combined assets of more than US$631 billion. That accounts for over half of total hedge fund money globally, which InvestHedge takes to be around US$1.3 trillion.
The number of $1 billion-plus fund of funds businesses also rose, from 119 to 134 in 2005, the study found. On these, 17 have more than $10 billion in assets.
