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To: CRL who wrote (76519)	5/4/2001 1:51:55 PM
From: t2	Respond to of 99985

Anecdotal evidence: Just talked with a friend who works for a fund-of-funds. They place money with equity hedge-funds. He told me that several of the hedge funds they place money with are closing for new deposits because the inflow of new money in the past 60 days has taken them to the capacity of their trading systems. That's an impressive show of the liquidity beginning to move back into this market. Might also be anecdotal evidence of the individual investors following a new "mania" to buy hedge funds. Maybe another sign of a bottom in the market; just like the buying of the internet funds last year marked the top in that "mania". Some individuals seem to have thrown in the towel on the bull...capitulation?. The most interesting data will come from the "short funds". These have sustained huge losses in a very short time and one would think that newbies to these will be bailing out soon, resulting in a lot of redemptions. I am noting that the tendency in the individual is still to lean towards buying long and any move into short fund could be very brief it is goes against them. BTW--I would love to get April data on hedge fund flows; especially the short funds