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Hedge fund indices are limited in their use to investors, according to Jamie Murray, head of marketing at HSBC Republic Investments. While hedge fund indices can provide a basic picture they face complications which make their data difficult to compare, he told the Alternative Investment Summit in London last month. There are data collation problems faced by all hedge fund indices. Not all hedge funds provide data to indices, sometimes because they are closed or because they are suffering poor performance, which they do not want to advertise. There is also an element of survivo...
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