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UCITS and Hedge Funds: Fact, Fiction and the Real Opportunities

April 2009
The Hedge Fund Journal

Recently, there have been several much-heralded launches of UCITS platforms for hedge fund strategies. In addition there appears to be a renewed interest shown by European and US sponsors and managers of alternatives in regulated products such as UCITS. This article explores what is driving that interest both in Europe and in the US, whether it reflects substantive possibilities and, if so, what the real opportunities for an alternative asset manager may be.