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Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers:

European hedge funds closed out a positive quarter on a strong note in March 2026, attracting $5.6bn in net inflows even as funds domiciled in the Americas suffered net outflows of $1.4bn - a striking regional divergence that tells its own story about where allocator conviction currently sits, according to the latest monthly update from Citco, one of the world's largest hedge fund administrators.

The regional split played out against a broadly difficult backdrop. The weighted average return across the $1.3 trillion in hedge fund assets administered by Citco came in at -3.5% for the month - the industry's first negative result in almost a year - with almost three quarters of all funds finishing in the red as conflict in the Middle East rattled equity markets, pushed bond indices lower, and even dragged down perceived safe havens such as gold.

Among individual strategies, Multi-Strategy funds bore the brunt of the market dislocation, posting a weighted average return of -6.3%. Equity funds were also hard hit, returning -2.8% on a weighted average basis, as some major equity indices recorded one of their worst March performances in recent years. Fixed Income Arbitrage and Event Driven strategies also finished negative, at -0.9% and -0.5% respectively.

Not all strategies su......................

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