LATEST REPORT: SECOND QUARTER 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.
HFRI Japan and EM: China Index lead regional performance YTD;
Asian hedge fund gains driven by AI investment, Cryptocurrencies
CHICAGO, (October 1, 2025) – Emerging Markets hedge fund performance accelerated into 2H25, led by a powerful combination of factors including expectations for falling interest rates, improving global economic outlook, progress on trade/tariff negotiations and optimism over near-term resolution of ongoing military geopolitical conflicts. The HFRI EM: China Index surged +6.5 percent in August, while the HFRI Japan Index added +4.1 percent, vaulting the YTD returns to +16.2 and +16.5 percent, respectively, 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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