Senrigan outlines approach to event-driven risk

Nick Taylor, founder of new start-up Senrigan Capital, explains how his event-driven hedge fund tackles risk and how he came to set up the firm.

Sen-ri-gan is a Japanese compound word, meaning "the eye that can see a long distance" --appropriate perhaps, given the lengthy and winding road that led to the firm's inception.

UK-born Nick Taylor founded Senrigan Capital in early 2009, and in one of that year's most prominent Asian hedge fund launches, the Senrigan Master Fund commenced in November. It has $180 million under management, with private equity firm Blackstone having already chipped in $100 million and committed to invest a further $50 million.

Until 2008, Nick Taylor had worked for Credit Suisse in Europe ...