The report, which is based on face-to-face interviews with family offices, wealth managers, insurance companies and private banks in early September, finds that more than half of fund selectors in the Bavarian capital plan to increase their absolute return allocations over the next 12 months.
While Expert Investor Europe has recorded similar levels of demand for uncorrelated strategies in other European markets in 2013, such as Sweden and Italy, the result represents a significant rise in appetite for Munich.
At last year’s Expert Investor Deutschland conference, for example, just a quarter of professional investors expected to boost their absolute return allocations, on a net basis.
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