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Asia-Pacific investors withdrew a total $19.2bn from hedge funds for first nine months in 2019

Thursday, December 12, 2019
Opalesque Industry Update - In a period of significant political unrest in Asia-Pacific - investors withdrew a total $19.2bn from hedge funds in Q1-Q3 2019, said Preqin said.

Singapore-based Swiss-Asia Financial Services has generated the highest cumulative net return of 314.69% YTD (as of September 2019) for its Vanda Global Fund and the second-highest of 124.38% YTD for its Prulev Global Macro Fund.

New Zealand-based King Tide Asset Management's King Tide NZ/Australian Long/Short Equity Fund topped the fund of hedge funds ranking with a YTD return of 21.22%.

Among emerging hedge funds (less than $100mn in size), Kingsferry Classic Value Fund I from China-based Kingsferry Capital tops the table with a YTD return of 65.77%.

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