InvestorForum

As battered hedge funds strive to recover in 2009, they will be picking their way across a landscape littered with defunct investment banks, ailing banks — and skeptics. But our latest InvestorForum suggests mixed feelings among institutional investors. Most of our survey respondents are sympathetic to the tradition of allowing hedge funds to limit withdrawals by imposing gates. The fees associated with hedge funds don’t seem quite as safe, however.

As battered hedge funds strive to recover in 2009, they will be picking their way across a landscape littered with defunct investment banks, ailing banks — and skeptics. But our latest InvestorForum suggests mixed feelings among institutional investors. Most of our survey respondents are sympathetic to the tradition of allowing hedge funds to limit withdrawals by imposing gates.

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