Tag: hedge funds

The Tokyo Stock Exchange's new Arrowhead platform is allowing much faster and cheaper trading and thus enticing more hedge funds into the market. There is growing harmonisation between hedge-fund managers and investors over transparency and liquidity terms, according to Credit Suisse. Korea Investment Trust Company expects Korean investors to increase their appetite for risk assets and is expanding its capabilities to offer them exposure to hedge funds. The Hong Kong-based alternative investment boutique celebrates its 10th anniversary with a new strategy taking stakes in Asian asset managers. In the first of a two-part Q&A, Karen Tan of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management looks at hedge-fund performance since the start of 2008. In the next piece, she will make ... The IP Asian Opportunities Fund, an event-driven strategy, will focus on special-situations credit and related equity in Asia. Are hedge fund managers saints or sinners? The European Union continues its mission to find out. The Singapore-based fund of funds has stopped direct coverage of most mainland-based hedge funds, as a result of their lack of transparency. Hedge funds have bounced back strongly from their lows last year, but they seem to recognise the need to adapt to their new environment. 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. Congratulations to hedge funds, which were upwardly mobile in every strategy last year. The fund of hedge funds manager is improving risk management transparency as it continues to build its Asia business, says Antonio Muñoz-Suñé, head of EIM USA. How much does it cost to set up and run a hedge fund? Paul Smith, our Christmas ghost, explains. What does it cost to pay a hedge fund’s staff? We asked someone who knows. Hedge fund managers say there will be demand for the new offering, especially from large firms with complex portfolios. The crisis has shown that funding is often as important as investments, according to hedge fund managers on a panel in Bangkok. Despite the woes in Dubai, hedge funds posted positive returns in November, but Asia funds lagged their peers. The Singapore-based fund of hedge funds analyses the phenomenon whereby hedge funds often reduce exposure towards year-end, with some interesting results. The Japanese giant finds a way outside of Japan to combine its prop-desk activities in a fund structure for institutional clients. Private wealth and institutional clients in the region, and globally, are showing an increased interest in Asian alternative assets.