Chad Bray reports on ABS Global Investments’s recruitment of a former executive from Brookfield Oaktree Wealth Solutions to lead its new private wealth division. The move reflects the growing push by alternative asset managers who have embraced semi-liquid structures targeted at attracting high-net-worth investors looking to increase their alternative portfolio strategies.
ABS joins a growing number of hedge fund and alternative managers—such as Man Group, Coatue Management, Diameter Capital, and Ellington Management—launching interval and tender offer funds to broaden access to their strategies among clients.
XA Investments President Kimberly Flynn highlighted the growing opportunity for hedge fund strategies in the semi-liquid market. “There is a good deal of whitespace in the interval and tender offer fund marketplace for hedge fund strategies,” she said. “While we have seen a proliferation of private credit interval funds in the past two years, we have only seen a handful of hedge funds launch evergreen products for the private wealth marketplace.”
Flynn emphasized that many hedge fund strategies are structurally well suited to interval funds. “Hedge fund strategies are typically a good fit within the interval fund structure because many of them invest in liquid securities and derivatives,” she said.
It’s become more evident of a rapid uptick in sizable semi-liquid offerings. “There are now 50 interval and tender offer funds in the marketplace today [as of June 30], that have more than $1 billion of assets under management, which serves as necessary proof of concept as to the viability of the interval fund structure,” Flynn noted.
Despite growing adoption, fund-raising thresholds remain high. “Most hedge funds do not want to launch an evergreen fund for retail if they can’t raise $1 billion or more,” she said. “I believe that more hedge fund managers and hedge fund of fund managers will embrace the interval fund structure in the coming years.”
Interval funds are currently growing at a 25% compound annual growth rate, according to Flynn, and have attracted increasing interest from hedge funds. Since 2024, more than a dozen hedge fund managers—including Morgan Stanley, Select Equity Group, and Wellington Management—have filed to launch semi-liquid strategies for the advisor market.
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