Like many businesses, hedge funds have to make difficult decisions about which tasks they should perform in-house and which they should outsource. Third-party service providers are available to do nearly all of a fund’s activities outside of making investment decisions. Our observation is that funds typically prefer to do as much of their work in-house as is possible. As a result, they tend to build up significant fixed costs. Some hedge funds are concerned that reliance on a third-party will increase risk or lead to an opera- tional or compliance failure. Many emerging managers come from larger funds and have therefore.
