Miner Company
Rewriting The Hedge Fund Playbook: Lessons From 2008
As the hedge fund industry hovers near an all-time high of roughly $5 trillion in assets, up from about $600 billion at the turn of the century, it has recently experienced a moderate drawdown across most strategies in the first half of March 2026. If this is not a short-lived disruption, and losses deepen into sustained double-digit declines, will the implications for the industry resemble those experienced during the 2008 financial crisis?
As the hedge fund industry hovers near an all-time high of roughly $5 trillion in assets, up from about $600 billion at the turn of the century, it has recently experienced a moderate drawdown across most strategies in the first half of March 2026. If this is not a short-lived disruption, and losses deepen into sustained double-digit declines, will the implications for the industry resemble those experienced during the 2008 financial crisis?