# Market growth

`kaal:entity:market-growth`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `market-growth`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

4 claims across 4 works, 2013 to 2020.

**2013**

- [2348463-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2348463-003) [empirical/evidenced] -- Hedge funds' distressed and default debt investments in the United States grew dramatically over two decades, rising from roughly $70 billion in 1998 to roughly $867 billion in 2007.
  > distressed and default debt investments in the United States have increased dramatically in the last two decades (from around $70 billion in 1998 to around $867 billion in 2007).
  Wulf A. Kaal, Hedge Funds’ Systemic Risk Disclosures in Bankruptcy (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2348463

**2016**

- [2715083-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2715083-008) [predictive/evidenced] -- Growth in retail alternatives is expected to continue rather than plateau, with projections that 15.8 percent of all mutual fund assets under management will sit in alternative mutual funds by 2022, making it a multi-trillion dollar industry.
  > this growth is not expected to slow down, as JP Morgan/Strategic Insight estimate that by 2022, 15.8% of all mutual fund AUM will be tied up in alternative mutual funds, making it a multi-trillion dollar industry
  Kaal, Confluence of Mutual and Private Funds (2016). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2715083

**2017**

- [3067615-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3067615-032) [condition/asserted] -- Identifying legitimate projects and distinguishing them from scams is a necessary condition both for investor protection and for creating the conditions in which ICOs can proliferate.
  > Identifying legitimate projects, distinguishing them from scams, is vital to pursue investors' protection while creating the conditions for ICOs to proliferate.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Marco Dell'Erba, Initial Coin Offerings Emerging Practices, Risk Factors, and Red Flags (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3067615

**2020**

- [3606663-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3606663-014) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Regulatory uncertainty is curtailing the growth of the digital asset industry because investor classes across the spectrum, from retail investors to the largest institutions, are hesitant to participate while the legal treatment of digital assets remains unclear.
  > The regulatory uncertainty in the market for digital assets is curtailing the growth of the industry. Many investor classes - from retail to the largest institutions - are hesitant to participate in the market because of the regulatory uncertainty.
  Kaal, Digital Asset Market Evolution (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3606663

## Verify

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