Hedge fund investors redeemed $103 billion in the first quarter, with $85 billion of that coming out of hedge funds-of-funds, according to
Redemptions slowed about 32% from the $152 billion that investors took out in the final quarter of 2008. About $50 billion of those redemptions were from hedge funds-of-funds.
Between redemptions and market decline, hedge funds now manage $600 billion less than the middle of 2008, when the industry was at its peak.