MARKING SIX YEARS

Institutions Leverage Hedge Scout for Unconstrained Access to Global Hedge Funds At Their Earliest Stages Of Development

The Hedge Scout Platform delivers sweeping, bottom-up proprietary research on hedge fund launches and emerging managers, addressing critical gaps in hedge fund access, transparency, and research that have constrained institutional allocators for decades.

Hedge Scout enhances every stage of the manager search and selection process, fills gaps in hedge fund databases, supercharges productivity, and equips your group with essential manager research and intelligence that you won't find anywhere else.

2-4x
More Hedge Fund Access

Launch research = hedge fund access — up to 4x more than leading databases, from a single platform1,2,3

90%+
Coverage Of Global Launches

Since 2020, we've researched 6,000+ manager launches — that's ~9 of every 10 new hedge funds launched globally.1,2,3

75%+
Of Funds Profiled Pre-Launch

The majority of funds are documented months or years before they ever self-report to a database — most never do.1

100%
Exclusive Research

All research and manager sourcing is proprietary — our intelligence is unavailable from any other research group or vendor.

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The Longstanding Problem

Allocators Seek Optimal Hedge Fund Returns But Lack Access to Performing Hedge Fund Managers

Even large, well-resourced institutional allocators lack visibility into over half of all global hedge fund entities — a measureable gap with performance consequences.

−44%
Established Hedge Funds Data Deficit
  • Traditional data vendors capture only a fraction of hedge funds because participation is voluntary.
  • Amalgamated data from six major industry databases miss 44% of funds having AUM >$150M.
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−2.64% p.a.
Established Deficit: Annual Cost
  • Listed funds underperform non-listed funds by ~2.64% net annualized RoR over 4 years.2,3
−80%
Emerging Hedge Funds Data Deficit
  • Over 80% of hedge fund launches and emerging managers are absent from traditional databases due to incubation, marketing, privacy, or other factors.
  • Most managers never disclose their funds to traditional industry data vendors.
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−5.26% p.a.
Emerging Deficit: Annual Cost
  • Established funds underperform younger ones by ~5.26% net annualized RoR over 15 years.2,3
The Solution

Early, Sweeping Access to Global Hedge Fund Launches Is the Foundation of Hedge Fund Research, Manager Sourcing, and Manager Selection

Hedge Scout delivers continuous proprietary research and intelligence on global hedge fund launches through an intuitive, mobile optimized platform.

01
In-Depth Intelligence

Extensive launch research provides the big picture, fills database gaps, highlights new and evolving strategies, optimizes peer analysis, and legitimizes manager due diligence — all while promoting better investment outcomes through superior intelligence.

02
Real-Time Monitoring

Get launch intel as it comes in. Monitor strategy and performance from ‘day one,’ reducing data biases — such as backfill or instant history — by up to 80% or more, while opening the door to new relationships, early investor fees, favorable liquidity terms, and capacity agreements.

03
Exclusive Content

Nearly all of our research is exclusive at release, giving your group the greatest marginal return of any provider — a decisive edge in hedge fund searches, strategy research, developing relationships, and competitive positioning.

04
Trend Forecasting

Gain insight into new and evolving hedge fund strategies, fundraising, seeding, allocation decisions, investor preferences, talent movement, and other key developments or trends that will shape the hedge fund investment landscape.

05
Efficiency Gains

Hedge fund analysts spend 20–25% of their time searching for and engaging with new managers. Hedge Scout delivers continuous research on new hedge funds, enabling your team to focus on other pertinent matters.

06
On The Go

A fast, continuously updated research platform, optimized for mobile, featuring an intuitive design and search interface — offered at the cost of analysts traveling to an industry conference.

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RESEARCH MILESTONES

Hedge Scout: The Definitive Edge in Hedge Fund Manager Sourcing, Access, Transparency, and Early Discovery

Since 2020, Hedge Scout has consistently delivered early-stage hedge fund research and access an order of magnitude beyond any alternative — essential intelligence you won’t find anywhere else.

6,000+
Manager Launches Profiled

Since 2020, Hedge Scout has identified and profiled over 6,000 hedge fund manager launches globally.

90%+
Capture-Rate of New Launches

We’ve identified over 9 in 10 new hedge fund launches — more than double the coverage of leading databases.

2–4x
More Hedge Fund Coverage

Gain 2 to 4x more hedge fund access than your current research providers.

75%+
Funds Profiled Pre-Launch

Most funds are researched and documented months — often years — before they announce publicly or appear in any database. The majority of funds never appear in a database.

100%
Exclusive Research

All of our research is proprietary — intelligence unavailable from any other vendor or public source.

0%
Data Vendor Copying

Original bottom-up research — no cloning, piggybacking, or vendor data dependency.

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Sources:

1) Based on research results achieved by Hedge Scout and OMCA LLC, the predecessor firm to Hedge Scout, from January 2020 through December 2025.)

2) Joenvaara, Juha, Kauppila, Mikko, Kosowski, Robert, and Tolonen, Pekka. “Hedge Fund Performance: Are Stylized Facts Sensitive to Which Database One Uses?” January 6, 2019.

3) Barth, Daniel and Joenvaara, Juha and Kauppila, Mikko and Wermers, Russell R., A Bias-Free Assessment of the Hedge Fund Industry: A New Evaluation of Total Assets, Alphas, and the Flow-Performance Relation (June 1, 2023).

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