LATEST REPORT: YEAR END 2025
Resourceful investment managers watch for rewarding opportunities in emerging markets. Along with the potential for a high return on investment, this category of fund comes with relatively high risk. This HFR Industry Report provides analysis of the world of emerging market hedge funds.
Results often vary by region in this category. Index performance, risk/return analysis, and more, can help give investors and managers gain insight into forming their own selective approach to the Emerging Markets.
Cryptocurrency exposures fall on Bitcoin correction;
EM, Asian hedge fund industry AUM rise to record to begin 2026
CHICAGO, (March 18, 2026) – Emerging Markets hedge funds posted steep declines through the first two weeks of March as oil prices surged over 40 percent, driven by the rapid escalation of the military conflict in Iran. Financial market volatility surged with sharp declines across regional EM equities, as the HFRX Emerging Markets Index fell -5.7 percent MTD through March 16. Prior to the March decline, the overall HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index gained +5.6 percent in the first two months of 2026, as reported today with the releases of the HFR Asian Hedge Fund Industry Report and the HFR Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Industry Report from HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.
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