Consulting firm Casey Quirk released its annual âConsultant Search Forecastâ earlier today. The report is based on a survey of 64 investment consultants conducted in the fall (post-Lehman, pre-Madoff) by Casey Quirk and manager database provider evestment Alliance. This yearâs report contains some notable difference from previous years. For starters, hedge funds have dropped from being a high âinterestâ and high âsearch focusâ to being kind of average (chart below from report). Taking their place at the top of the heap as generating the highest interest are traditional investments which were listed as âa takeaway gameâ last year and ânice and steadyâ in 2007. http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2009/...ants-take-calls-from-traditional-investments/