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Hedge Funds May Lose 25% of Assets, Blackstone’s James Says
- Industry faces ‘day of reckoning’ that will be painful: James
- Hedge-fund fee structure is hard to justify, billionaire says
Hedge Funds May Lose 25% of Assets, Blackstone Says
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The $2.9 trillion hedge-fund industry may lose about a quarter of its assets in the next year as performance slumps, said Tony James, Blackstone Group LP’s billionaire president.
“It’s kind of a day of reckoning that we face here,” James said Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg TV Canada’s Pamela Ritchie at a conference in Toronto. “There will be a shrinkage in the industry and it will be painful. That’s going to be pretty painful for an awful lot of places.”