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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Kyu Ho (ex-Kingdon) has set up Wuzhu Asia Partners in Hong Kong to run a Samena-seeded pan-Asia equity long/short strategy. Wuzhu has also recruited Grant Suttie (ex-Martin Currie) as COO and Kevin Ji (ex-Kingdon, Maverick, Goldman Sachs) as an analyst.
Doric Capital in Hong Kong, founded by Michael Nock (ex-Man), has closed down its Asian equity long/short fund to focus on a small-cap strategy instead.
Asian hedge funds raised US$4.43 billion in 2011, according to AsiaHedge. The average size of the 58 new Asian hedge funds set up during 2011 was US$76.4 million.
Asian hedge funds managed assets of US$124bn at the end of December according to Eurekahedge. Total AUM in the year 2000 was around US$20bn and assets peaked in 2007 at US$176bn.
The Eurekahedge Japan Hedge Fund Index returned +0.83% in January, while the Eurekahedge Asia ex-Japan Hedge Fund Index returned +4.30%.
Kalina King has joined China-focused private equity firm Lunar Capital. She recently left ALPS Advisory in Hong Kong where she was an analyst doing hedge fund manager research and due diligence. Earlier in her career she was at Morgan Stanley.