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In the week ending March 20th 2020, a report by Preqin revealed that the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Funds benchmark suffered significant losses (-2.21%) in February, compared to January's modest gains (+0.62%), caused by the global outbreak of COVID-19 and falling oil prices.

The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was down 1.73% in February, outperforming the underlying global equity market as represented by the MSCI ACWI (Local) which lost 7.84% over the month.

Meanwhile, the hedge fund industry experienced $21.2 billion in inflows in January, reversing a two-month redemption trend in a turnaround from December's $29.0 billion in redemptions, and the managed futures industry reversed course in February, turning from January's gains into negative monthly territory losing 0.22%, according to the Barclay CTA Index

In new launches, Carbon Cap Management, a London based environmental asset management firm has launched the World Carbon Fund; Alpha Sigma Capital (ASC), a crypto and blockchain hedge fund co-founded by former managing director of strategy at Nasdaq Global Corporate Solutions Enzo Villani, is raising $100 million for a multi-strategy digital currency hedge fund; Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solu......................

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