KPMG International, in cooperation with the Alternative Investment Management Association and the Managed Funds Association, recently published a report detailing findings from its survey of 200 hedge fund managers around the world who have, in the aggregate, approximately $910 billion in assets under management.  The survey generally covered the impact of recent regulatory changes on managers’ compliance expenditures, operations and product offerings.  Specifically, the survey analyzed how size and geography impact manager compliance costs; key regulatory drivers of recent increases in manager compliance expenditures; manager projections for expenditures on outside service providers; impact of regulatory developments on manager operations (including whether regulatory changes would cause a manager to stop doing business or move from a jurisdiction); and manager predictions about future offerings of registered products such as funds organized pursuant to the EU’s Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Directive, or funds registered pursuant to the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940 (mutual funds).  See “Are Alternative Investment Strategies Within the Spirit of UCITS?,” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 5, No. 23 (Jun. 8, 2012); “Citi Prime Finance Report on Liquid Alternatives Describes a Massive Capital Raising Opportunity for Hedge Fund Managers Willing to Go Retail (Part One of Two),” Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol. 6, No. 21 (May 23, 2013).  This article summarizes key findings of the survey.