Hedge funds are promising something they probably won't be able to deliver

Reuters/David Mercado Hedge funds seem to be promising something that is too good to be true, according to Barclays' capital-solutions group, which studies this stuff. Barclays says that since 2008, hedge funds have been shortening the amount of time it takes for their investors to redeem their money. At the same time, however, hedge funds are increasingly in a position where they can't sell assets quickly to get that money to return to their investors. That could spell trouble. The logical exte...