14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become
less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of
everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact
on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than
everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough
pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey
on this topic.