Morningstar hedge fund data could create new challenges; Some advisers express concern about too much information being made available.(News)

Investment News, November, 2006

Byline: Jeff Benjamin DETROIT - Morningstar Inc., making good on a three-year-old commitment to help better define a heretofore opaque hedge fund industry, is within weeks of rolling out what will be among the most comprehensive hedge fund research databases. Its universe of more than 6,000 hedge funds includes a majority of the estimated 10,000 hedge funds worldwide.

Unlike many hedge fund databases, which might track several hundred hedge funds for asset allocation purposes or to construct investible indexes, Chicago-based Morningstar's intentions are said to be purely research based. In essence, although Morningstar isn't expected to start offering investment products, it does include access to its hedge fund data in many of the...

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