July 20, 2009
Tribridge Investment Partners Ltd., a Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager, said Monday it will launch a new fund in August and hired John Liptak, former head of Bank of America Corp’s Asia special situations group, to run it.
The new fund will have a pan-Asia focus and seek to identify mispriced or undervalued securities due to financial [...]
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July 13, 2009
At that point, it is more than a trend…
Stephen Satchell, the former Tokyo- based head of Asian proprietary credit trading at Credit Suisse Group AG, plans to start an Asia-focused credit hedge fund as early as this month.
The GCS Asian Opportunity Fund I will offer “small-to- medium sized” loans, mostly with an equity component, to [...]
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July 10, 2009
Darwin Capital Premier LS1 Fund, a hedge fund investing in Japanese stocks, has returned 31 percent since opening to investors in January as bets on companies including JP-Holdings Inc. and Daiken Medical Co. paid off.
The fund, advised by DarWin Capital Partners Ltd., began on Jan. 20 after running under a limited partnership structure since June [...]
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July 6, 2009
Japan’s Nomura Holdings plans to launch a global prime brokerage business by September as the financial crisis has created room for new players to serve hedge funds, a senior executive said on Monday.
“We think prime brokerage is a very interesting opportunity because of what happened in the industry this past year,” Siggi Thorkelsson, Nomura’s head [...]
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