Article: Buying up: Hedge fund success has everyone wanting in.(Special Report: Asset Servicing)(Industry Overview)

Byline: Gregory Crawford

The boom in hedge fund investments, particularly from plan sponsors, has custodial banks, outsourcing firms and technology companies in a feeding frenzy, gaining expertise through acquisitions to boost market share.

"There used to be several niche players,'' said Bob Donahoe, managing director of BISYS Hedge Fund Services Ltd., New York, a unit of BISYS Group Inc. "There's been a move toward bigger institutional-type companies moving into the hedge fund administration space.''

He noted that BISYS Hedge Fund Services was borne out of BISYS' acquisition of Hemisphere Management Ltd. in March 2002.

"Institutions ...

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