Emerging market-focused hedge funds continue to curry favour with investors as their faith in a European and US economic recovery wavers.
Emerging market-focused hedge funds continue to curry favour with investors as their faith in a European and US economic recovery wavers. According to the latest report by US hedge fund data provider, Hedge Fund Research, EM hedge funds saw their assets swell by USD1.4 billion in Q2: USD300million as a result of new inflows and USD1.1 billion coming from performance-based returns. That’s now the fourth consecutive quarter that assets have grown: they now stand at a record USD123 billion. Macro hedge funds with an Emerging Market tilt did particularly well in Q2, gaining 9 per cent: a stark contrast to global macro hedgies, which, according to HFR, fell 1.67 per cent. The report found that EM relative value arbitrage funds made gains of USD1.2 billion in Q2 helping to absorb some of the USD2.1billion losses in EM equity funds.