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Emerging hedge fund performance questioned

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Emerging-hedge-fund managers are getting more attention from institutional investors because they tend to produce better returns than larger, more established funds, but industry insiders disagree about the extent of the outperformance.

Hedge fund investment consultants and early-stage fund-of-hedge-funds managers are critical of industry-produced and academic analyses that don't correct for survivorship and backfill biases found in the various public databases that aggregate self-reported hedge fund returns. They contend that stat

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