# kaal:claim:2715083-007

**Claim.** Net assets of mutual funds using alternative strategies quadrupled between 2007 and 2014, a 27 percent annualized growth rate, while the number of such funds rose from 181 to 402.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- Investment Company Institute data, 2007 to 2014
- author's own analysis presented in Exhibit 1

**Source quote.**

> The author's analysis of ICI data in Exhibit 1 suggests that net assets of mutual funds employing alternative strategies have quadrupled since 2007 (a 27% annualized growth rate). The number of funds offering investors alternative strategies has grown from 181 in 2007 to 402 in 2014

**From.** Kaal, *Confluence of Mutual and Private Funds* (2016), II. Proliferation of Private- and Retail Alternative Funds, page 6

**Cite as.** Kaal, Confluence of Mutual and Private Funds (2016). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2715083

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**Topics.** private-funds

**Keywords.** retail-alternatives, growth-data, ici-data, alternative-mutual-funds

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