According to the Daily Telegraph, according to the magazine "-Eurohedge" published by intelligence of hedge, as of March, the fund size of global hedge funds has increased to $65,438+$0.5 trillion, with a total of 8,000 hedge funds. The funds of European hedge funds alone increased by 18% over the same period, reaching $300 billion. There are 1500 hedge funds in Europe, most of which are established outside London, mainly Marshall Wace, Pelton Partners and Fulcrum Asset Management. There are more than 4,000 hedge funds in the United States, with a capital scale of over $850 billion. In 2005, a large number of institutional investors poured into hedge funds: pension funds, charitable funds, group company funds and insurance funds. Goldman Sachs Commodity Index-Goldman Sachs Commodity Index. Stock index futures trading officially started on 199 1. It is estimated that by the first quarter of 2006, the capital scale of GSCI was close to 80 billion US dollars, and about 654.38 billion US dollars had been invested in the copper market. The main components of the index are energy products 79.04%, other agricultural products 9. 16%, basic metals 5.82%, precious metals 1.6 1% and so on. The above ratio is re-evaluated every year according to the average dollar value of OECD data in the past five years.
In 2005, GSCI commodity index increased by 39% year-on-year, and in the first quarter of 2006, due to the sharp drop in oil and metal prices, it decreased by 3.6%.