At A Glance - Investment Funds

When the board of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published its Report on the Fourth IOSCO Hedge Fund Survey in November 2017, the findings confirmed the continuing strength and widespread appeal of the alternative investment industry to investors. It also confirmed that the Cayman Islands remains the pre-eminent jurisdiction for domiciling of alternative investment structures.

The biannual report, which is based on data as of September 30, 2016, highlights that assets under management of the survey participants grew in the preceding 24 months by 24% to $3.2 trillion and that Cayman domiciled structures accounted for 53% of those assets, a percentage which is largely unchanged over that 2 year period. The sample size reflected in the survey is sufficiently material for the growth rates and domicile concentrations to serve as reliable proxies for the industry as a whole, reflecting the capital aggregation and performance returns which