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Institutions Leverage Hedge Scout for Unconstrained Research on Global Hedge Fund Launches

Hedge Scout delivers proprietary sourcing and research on hedge fund launches and emerging managers, addressing gaps in access, transparency, and coverage that have constrained institutional investors for decades.

Since 2020, Hedge Scout has sourced over 90% of global hedge fund launches, some 6,000+ managers, with the majority of funds profiled pre-launch—proprietary intelligence unavailable through any other channel.

Hedge Scout
offers more
hedge fund access
than leading hedge
fund data vendors 1, 2, 3
32%
90%+
Avg. Coverage of Six Leading Hedge Fund Data Vendors
Hedge Scout Coverage
100%
Exclusive Hedge Fund Research

All manager research and sourcing is proprietary—no copying, piggybacking, or cloning.

90%+
Capture-rate of Manager Launches

Since 2020, Hedge Scout has covered over 6,000 manager launches.

75%+
Of Hedge Funds Profiled Pre-Launch

Hedge Scout finds hedge funds launches early on, with many predating service provider selection.

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The Longstanding Problem: Hedge Fund Access

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

Even large, well-resourced institutional allocators lack visibility into the majority of global hedge fund managers — a transparency gap that undermines manager research and both absolute and relative performance.

−44%
Established Hedge Funds Data Deficit
  • Traditional data vendors capture only a fraction of hedge funds because participation is voluntary—and most managers never opt in.1
  • Amalgamated data from six major industry databases misses 44% of funds having AUM >$150M.2,3
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−2.64% p.a.
Established Deficit: Annual Cost
  • Listed funds underperform non-listed funds by ~2.64% net annualized rate of return (RoR) over a 4 year period.2,3
−80%
Emerging Hedge Funds Data Deficit
  • More than 80% of hedge fund launches and emerging managers are absent from traditional databases due to incubation, marketing, privacy, or other factors.1
  • Most hedge fund managers never disclose their funds to traditional industry data vendors.1
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−5.26% p.a.
Emerging Deficit: Annual Cost
  • Established funds underperform younger ones by ~5.26% net annualized rate of return (RoR) over a 15 year period.4
A new standard in hedge fund access

Hedge Scout Offers a Definitive Edge in Hedge Fund Sourcing, Access, and Early Discovery

Research that addresses the critical gaps in hedge fund transparency and manager coverage that—for decades—have constrained hedge fund search and investment.

01
In-Depth Intelligence

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

02
Real-Time Monitoring

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

03
Exclusive Content

Nearly all research is exclusive upon release, giving your organization the highest research return of any provider — a decisive edge in hedge fund searches, strategy research, relationship development, 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 shaping 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

Hedge Scout is a fast, continuously updated, mobile-optimized research platform with an intuitive design and search interface, offered at a fraction of the cost of traditional databases.

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Research Performance

Hedge Scout: The Proven Industry Leader in Hedge Fund Launch Intelligence

Since 2020, Hedge Scout has consistently delivered early-stage hedge fund intelligence that is a step change beyond any alternative.

6,000+
Manager Launches Profiled

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

90%+
Capture-Rate of New Launches

Hedge Scout has identified more than 9 in 10 new hedge fund launches — over twice the coverage of leading databases.

2–4x+
More Hedge Fund Coverage

Gain two to four times the hedge fund coverage of your current research providers

75%+
Of Funds Profiled Pre-Launch

Most funds are researched and documented months — often years — before they announce publicly or appear in any databases; most never do.

100%
Exclusive Research

All of our research is proprietary — intelligence that is unavailable from any other combination of data vendors or public sources.

0%
Data Vendor Copying

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

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NOTES:

All figures are estimates and subject to change. Data points are based on trailing 2-year research performance of Hedge Scout unless otherwise noted.

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).

4) PerTrac Financial Solutions. "Impact of Fund Size and Age on Hedge Fund Performance." PerTrac, September 2011..

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