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Ex-Morgan Stanley Japan experts launch hedge fund

By Simon Osborne | 6 June 2008
Keywords: morgan stanleyjapan

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The Shaka Japan Fund will focus on the top 250 stocks in Japan and will be managed from New York.

The Shaka Japan fund has been launched in New York by hedge fund manager Shaka Capital Management. It is a new start-up, launched in January of this year with partners’ capital, and has an estimated capacity of $1 billion.

Arif Imam is Shaka’s business manager and is a former managing director at Morgan Stanley, responsible for global distribution of Japanese equities.

The portfolio manager is Alexandre de Bethmann who formerly worked at Federated Global and TIAA-CREF.

Shaka’s trader is Douglas Butcher, who was also a managing director at Morgan Stanley where ...

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