Financial borrowing of hedge funds managing UK assets 2014

This statistic shows the funds that engage in financial borrowing in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by type of borrowing. In this survey, 8.3 percent of funds relied on unsecured borrowing while those relying on secured collateralized borrowings used Prime Brokers as their source (nearly 70 percent).

Financial borrowings of hedge funds managing assets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by type of borrowing

Characteristic	March 2014	September 2014
No borrowing	19.8%	22%
Unsecured borrowing	7.1%	8.3%
Collateralized/secured borrowing via Prime Brokers	68.3%	69.7%
Collateralized/secured borrowing via Reverse repo	40.5%	43.9%
Collateralized/secured borrowing via Other	24.6%	22%

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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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