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The hedge fund industry's concern with confidentiality and privacy is itself an obstacle to empirical research: it made obtaining a substantial effective sample size for this study difficult, independent of the survey design.

Given the particular concern in the hedge fund industry regarding confidentiality and privacy, obtaining a substantial effective sample size for this study proved difficult.

Wulf A. Kaal, Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2012), B. Sample Size and Sampling Constraints
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Wulf A. Kaal, Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2150377

• surveys of hedge fund managers
• questions touching firm or client financial status

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• restated_by kaal:claim:2739479-017 Survey research on private fund advisers is structurally constrained because these advisers traditionally oppo...
• restated_by kaal:claim:2732915-006 Because private fund advisers prefer confidentiality and generally oppose publicity, most do not respond to su...

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