Thomas Strauss, Ramius president & CEO, discusses the investment outlook for hedge funds, commodities and real estate in the new year.

“Institutions and private clients around the world are still well under-invested in hedge funds,” Strauss told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo on the Closing Bell. “Fees are too high, and we’re trying to address that problem by helping clients understand which hedge funds really produce alpha and which don’t. And there are a lot of exposures created by hedge funds that can be owned in liquid format at much lower costs by ETFs and other liquid instruments than just owning hedge funds.”

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