Weekly Asia News (Friday)

A new long/short equity hedge fund firm, Manas Capital Ltd., has been launched in Hong Kong. »

A new hedge fund scheduled to launch in July is being planned by former Lone Pine and Goldman Sachs executives and will feature an innovative fee structure reported Reuters this week. »

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Eurex are to form a partnership to deliver convenient market access and cost efficiencies to members of both exchanges. Both companies plan to link their co-location facilities/data centres to provide market participants easy connectivity to each other’s markets in Singapore and Frankfurt/Main respectively. »

Value Partners Group (806:HK), one of Asia’s largest independent asset managers with approximately USD7.7billion in assets as at 31 January 2012, announced this week »

Asian hedge funds continue to surge ahead as they attempt to eradicate last year’s losses. »

Asia-focused hedge funds that launched post financial crisis are shutting as they struggle to compete for, and raise new capital from a shrinking pool of key investors reported Bloomberg »

A former managing director at Standard Chartered and derivatives trader Yiming Liang, and the former chief investment officer of China&r »

Several hedge funds in Japan are having to deal with inquiries from nervous clients following the news this week that Japan’s financial regulator was widening its investigation into the »

China is planning to allow overseas hedge funds to set up RMB-denominated products on the mainland and raise capital there reported the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s Engl »

Two of Asia’s leading hedge funds have made it into Forbes’ latest survey on hedge fund compensation in a further sign that the region’s alternatives industry is capable of »