goldman sachs group inc’s hedge fund clients focused on asian stocks lost 33 in november as renewed virus concerns sparked a global selloff in the second half of the month the bank’s prime brokerage wrote in a note the assetweighted average decline compared with a 38 drop in the benchmark msci asia pacific index in dollar terms suggesting managers offered investors limited protection against the marketwide slump funds focusing on chinese and japanese stocks fared better compared to their respective benchmarks according to the note