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HANRiver hedge fund to launch in July

By Simon Osborne | 28 April 2008
Keywords: korea

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The new hedge fund will focus on long/short and deep-value equity strategies in Korea.

The HANRiver Core Fund will be launched in July by the new Singapore-based asset management company HANRiver Capital. The firm hopes to start the fund with assets of $30 million and expand that to $50 million in the first year. Currently, they are focusing exclusively on Korea, though in the mid-term may invest in other Asian countries.

The three principals – Klaus Kim, Shawn Kim, and Eunice Lee – all met when they worked together at Shinhan Bank. More recently, the fund CEO Klaus Kim worked at SH Asset Management. The HANRiver CIO Shawn Kim ran the Korea Contrarian Fund at KITMC ...

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