Share of hedge funds by management strategy UK 2014

This statistic shows the share of hedge funds that are managing assets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by strategy. Long bias equity hedge was the salient strategy, with 23 percent. Multistrategy was the second most common with 17 percent of hedge funds.

Share of hedge funds managing assets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by strategy

Characteristic	Share of funds per strategy
Equity Hedge: Long / Short	23%
Multistrategy	17%
Macro: Global Macro	16%
Equity Hedge: Market Neutral	8%
Managed Futures/ CTA: Quantitative	8%
Credit Long/ Short	5%
Equity Hedge: Long Bias	4%
Relative Value: Fixed Income Arbitrage	3%
Event Driven: Distressed/ Restructuring	3%
Credit Asset Based Lending	1%
Managed Futures/ CTA: Fundamental	1%
Relative Value: Convertible Bond Arbitrage	1%
Event Driven: Equity Special Solutions	1%
Other	8%

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Release date

June 2015

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

September 2014

Number of respondents

52 respondents

Special properties

management firms

Supplementary notes

The source specifies: "Hedge funds are one category of alternative investment funds. Alternative investment funds invest in a variety of global assets, including property and commodities, and they often have a high degree of flexibility around how they invest. Hedge funds are a type of alternative investment fund which use this freedom to pursue a wide variety of strategies in many different asset classes: some run very concentrated portfolios; others pursue complex trading strategies characterised by high levels of turnover; and others employ high levels of leverage."

The survey data was obtained from 52 management firms, which collectively manage USD 623 billion of hedge fund assets globally. Although none of the 132 funds surveyed are domiciled in the UK, the 52 firms nevertheless manage a stated USD 265 billion out of the UK.

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