Kima Capital gets off to a flying start

By Simon Osborne | 7 January 2010
Keywords: hedge fund | kima capital | michael gallagher
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The Australia-based pan-Asia long/short hedge fund is up 14% in its first six months.

It seems all the names that convey a sense of fluidity and liquidity have been snapped up by hedge funds (or by teenagers who have nabbed the domain name and want an obscene amount of money for it). Kima Capital's main investment criteria is liquidity, for both its portfolio and for its investors -- in a bid to capture that sense, Kima means 'wave' in Greek.

The Melbourne-based firm was founded by chief investment officer Justin Klintberg, who had spent the previous seven years investing for Marble Bar Asset Management, the last four of which in Melbourne. The chief ...

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