Hedge fund flows help Asiya assets to $1bn

Asiya Investments, a Hong Kong-based fund manager with roots in the Middle East, has doubled its assets since the start of 2014 to over $1 billion, as it looks to broaden its reach to a global investor base. Founded in 2005, Asiya – Arabic for Asia – last year ran more than $500 million across public and private equity, real estate and fixed-income strategies. Earlier this year it received two significant mandates to its public equity funds, which has helped raise its hedge fund…