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New Fund to Take Advantage of Abenomics
Singapore-based investment manager Lotus Peak Capital Pte will launch a new fund of hedge funds on February 3, 2014. Abenomics Long Short Fund will get started with a $15 million beginning investment from Swiss and Asian family offices, and is designed to take advantage of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to stimulate the Japanese […]
Japan-Focused Hedge Fund Launched by Former Goldman Sachs Managers
Three former managing directors from Goldman Sachs who founded Golvis Investment Pte are planning on opening a Japan-focused multi-strategy hedge fund this quarter to investors. The managers are Chief Investment Officer Koji Gotoda, senior fund manager Takayuki Kasama and Chief Operating Officer Taiichi Hoshino. Golvis also employs 12 people; including a five-member team in Tokyo […]
Tsukasa Shimoda to Start Japan-Focused Fund
Former fund manager at Morgan Stanley Asset & Investment Trust Management Company, Tsukasa Shimoda, will be opening a Japan-oriented hedge fund on April 1st. The fund will take advantage of an increasing desire to invest in what is now the world’s second largest equity market. Shimoda’s fund will be called the UMJ Galleyla Fund and […]
The World’s Largest Economies in 2011
The next ten years will bring many changes to the world economy, perhaps the biggest one the relinquishing of first place of the United States to the emerging giant economy of China. The numbers are the GDP in trillions of dollars 1. United States: $14.6 2. China: $10.0 3. Japan: $4.3 4. India: $4.0 5. […]
Masaru Mastsumoto’s Hayate Atom Investment Returns 0.9%
Former Goldman Sachs trader Masaru Matsumoto’s Japan-focused hedge fund Hayate Atom Investment Co. has returned 0.9% since its start four days after the earthquake and tsunami. According to Matsumoto, the fund began with around $4 million from both domestic and overseas investors on March 15th. The fund has a maximum capacity of 20 billion yen, […]
Ping-Ponging World Stocks
There’s bouncing and then there’s mega-bouncing. It seems like global stocks don’t know which way to turn next and just keep on bouncing around. One minute things are looking great and people are ready to pop open the champagne and at other times it looks like a disaster and depression looms. So what is really […]
Computer-Based Hedge Funds and the Japanese Crisis
Some of the largest computer-operated hedge funds in the world have taken a serious hit following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. This strategy was hit the hardest by the disaster. Connecticut’s Graham Capital’s primary $4 billion fund lost $300 million (almost 8%) over the course of two weeks, while their other funds also dropped by […]
Hedge Funds Recovering from Japanese Crisis
The crisis in Japan has caused a major slump in the hedge fund industry, but the market seems to be on the verge of salvaging what had the potential to be one of the worst months since 2008. Nikkei, a Japanese firm, still has a 225 index which is 10% lower following the earthquake that […]