Frog takes name of hedge fund manager

By Simon Osborne | 27 January 2010
Keywords: frog | species | frog | rob appleby | adm | capital | foundation | adm | capital
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A new species of small brown frog has been discovered in Vietnam and named after ADM Capital's Rob Appleby.

The charitable ADM Capital Foundation -- backed by the eponymous distressed/special-situations fund -- has revealed that the efforts it sponsors in Vietnam have resulted in the discovery of a new species of frog.

Discovered by Dr Jodi Rowley, the amphibian takes the name of Rob Appleby, chief investment officer at Hong Kong-based ADM Capital. It is to be called 'Appleby's Asian toad', or in Latin 'Leptolalax applebyi' .

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