A new long/short equity hedge fund firm, Manas Capital Ltd., has been launched in Hong Kong.
Institutional investors seeking exposure to emerging Asian equity markets face challenges in accessing many of the region’s closed markets and are turning to exchange-traded derivatives markets, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) instruments that can provide the exposure they need, says
A survey conducted by Kinetic Partners of senior figures in the Asian asset management, investment banking and broking industry revealed that almost half believe that regulation will continue to be the greatest challenge for the global finance industry over the
SAIL Advisors, one of Asia’s leading global fund of hedge fund managers, has reinforced its fast-growing team in New York with the addition of an industry veteran to help drive its expansion in the US market. Jason Filiberti has been
Met Capital Management is preparing a Q2 launch of the Met Pacific Fund, an Asia-Pacific long/short equity trading fund. When launched, the new fund will adopt a fully systematic version of the post-earnings stock momentum strategy successfully used by its
Hong Kong-based Athos Capital Ltd, who went into partnership with Ascalon Capital Managers, a unit of Australia’s Westpac Banking Corp, at the end of 2011, aim to launch a
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEx) are to spend HKD3billion (USD388million) on technology upgrades over three years to expand its derivatives business and boost trading speeds as competition
Adam Leitzes, who helped assess investments for Tiger Management LLC in Shanghai, is planning to start his own hedge fund targeting Asian stock
Hong Kong-based Segantii Capital Management has seen its assets more than double since mid-2011 reported Reuters this week, bucking the trend of Asian funds suffering net outflo
Tokyo-headquartered Sparx Group, one of Asia’s largest hedge funds, has plans to launch a new fund in July that will invest in Japanese renewable energy projects as the country r
