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No oxymoron: Liquid Alpha

Author(s): Eric Weinstein, managing director and chief investment officer, Neuberger Berman's funds of hedge funds group

Publish date: October 2009

Summary: These days, hedge fund investors appear to care as much about liquidity as they do about returns, showing interest not only in the ability to retrieve capital, but also in avoiding potential illiquidity. This is a change from two years ago, and has big implications for the industry. In this report, the author gives a "from the trenches" look at what he' seeing and hearing as he meets with and assesses hundreds of hedge fund offerings a year.

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