Goldman Sachs defends its fund of funds offering

AR spoke with Kent Clark and Chris Kojima, co-heads of Goldman's fund of funds unit. They say bad press hasn’t hurt business. READ FULL STORY

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  • New funds bounce back

    Fund launches began to pick up pace compared with last year, and the biggest 43 funds garnered $10.9 billion.

  • Doing more with less

    Demand for aid went up during the recession—at the same time growth of hedge fund philanthropy slowed.

  • The boom in independent administration

    At least $587 billion in U.S. hedge fund assets now use independent administrators, up from $438 billion last year. Citco continues to be the top administrator, with $147 billion, according to the AR database.

  • Prime time

    Prime brokers are back on their feet and aggressively going after market share, using add-on services like capital introductions to attract cash-strapped hedge funds.

  • The Rich List

    Is the recession over? It is for the wealthiest hedge fund managers, who made a record $25 billion in 2009.


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Absolute Return Indices June 2010

Composite
Index Composite
ARJun 10YTD%
Composite-0.29%1.26%100%
Commodities0.41%-0.68%100%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage0.41%2.35%100%
Credit0.68%5.15%100%
Distressed-0.22%4.68%100%
Event Driven-0.96%2.23%100%
Fixed Income0.74%4.39%100%
Global Equity-0.70%-1.82%100%
Latin American Debt0.73%1.85%100%
Latin American Equity0.79%-0.15%100%
Macro0.11%1.93%100%
Managed Futures-0.15%0.38%100%
Mixed Arbitrage-0.15%0.55%100%
Mortgage Backed Securities0.50%5.47%100%
Multi-Strategy-0.55%1.83%100%
Technology-1.66%0.41%100%
U.S. Equity-1.74%-1.47%100%

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