Vanessa Hemavathi

Privium Fund Management has recruited Vanessa Hemavathi as Head of Investment Services in its Hong Kong office. She will focus on developing Privium’s business in the Asia-Pacific region. Most recently, Hemvathi spent three years with Inflection Point Intelligence where she has been a program director working on the global expansion of the Henley Executive Hedge Fund Program. Prior to that, she worked on corporate and commercial partnerships at The Wall Street Journal.

Carol Hu of CQS

Carol Hu has joined CQS in Hong Kong as VP of Business Development. Most recently, she was COO at Platina Capital Management. Earlier in her career, she has had stints as a trader at Bin Yuan Capital and Prime Capital Management. CQS is a credit-focused multi-strategy asset manager founded in 1999.

The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 0.62% in July, bringing its year-to-date return to 6.48%. Roughly 30.8% of hedge fund managers in the index have recorded double-digit gains over the first seven months of the year. The Eurekahedge Greater China Hedge Fund Index gained 0.51% in July, bringing its year-to-date gain to 10.37%. Investor confidence in the US$28.4 billion mandate remained robust with US$0.9 billion of net inflows recorded in 2018, despite the US$2.3 billion performance decline over the same year.

Yasuhiro Kawakami

Yasuhiro Kawakami has joined the Tokyo office of Algebris Investments as a Managing Director. He has spent the past two years at PIMCO and was previously at Citi and Goldman Sachs. However, he has spent most of his career at IFC – International Finance Corporation as a Senior Financial Officer. Algebris is a global asset management firm with multiple investment strategies founded in 2006.

Geoff Barker

Portfolio manager Geoff Barker in Hong Kong has joined US$17bn fund house CQS following the collapse of City Financial where he previously housed his Counterpoint Asia macro fund. Prior to joining City Financial in 2013, Barker was part of the macro fund team at Ballingal Investment Advisors for eight years. Earlier in his career, he was HSBC’s chief economist in Asia-Pacific and also had stints at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Schroders, Baring Securities and Smith New Court Far East. Barker is expected to bring several team members with him to CQS, including Nick Bibby, Neil Scrase, Vishal Mahtani, Chrisy Law, Amanda Chan and Ivan Kan.

Chris Antonelli

Chris Antonelli, who last year left Nomura, has joined investment manager Schonfeld as its new co-head of the Asian business. He finished his ten years at Nomura as Global Head of Prime Finance. Immediately prior to that, he served as Head of Prime Services, Asia-Pacific. He started his career in 1998 at Lehman Brothers where he spent a decade before Nomura took over that business.

The Eurekahedge Asia ex-Japan Hedge Fund Index was up 7.87% year-to-date as of the end of April, supported by the recovering Asian equity markets throughout the first four months of 2019. The Asia ex-Japan mandate has witnessed US$2.4 billion of investor redemptions year-to-date, despite robust performance gains totalling US$7.6 billion over the same period.

Alain Bordoni

Alain Bordoni, a former managing director at PAG, the alternative investment manager, has joined Hong Kong multi-strategy hedge fund manager Nine Masts Capital in a role focused on operations, risk, treasury, systems and analytics. Earlier in his career, he had stints at Goldman Sachs and Barclays.

Hedge fund managers focusing on Asia ex-Japan were up 2.04% in March, with strong returns registered by long/short equities hedge funds in the region. On a year-to-date basis, the Eurekahedge Asia ex-Japan Hedge Fund Index has gained 7.21%, supported by the recovery of Asian equity and bond markets in the first quarter of the year. The underlying Greater China and India mandates were up 12.27% and 6.46% respectively as of March 2019 year-to-date.

Bryan Goh

Bryan Goh has today started a new job as Chief Investment Officer of the Karuna Family Office in Singapore. For the past four years, he has been the CIO of the Asian arm of Swiss private bank Bordier. Earlier he was Head of Alternative Investments at DBS Bank. In his career since graduating from London School of Economics, he has also had stints at Arab Bank, Oaks Family Office and First Avenue Partners.