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Galaxy Asset Management, a long/short equity hedge fund focused on mainland and Greater China set up by Joe Chan in 1998, is trying to regain investors and assets.
Clearstream Investments, an alternative asset manager founded in 2006, employs quantitative models based on optimal pricing theory to forecast price movements in global markets.
Blue Skye Special Opportunities Fund blends asset-based investments (NPLs, public administration credit, real estate), special opportunity lending, distressed credit and corporate restructuring.
Fund of hedge funds Benchmark Plus seeks to isolate the alpha component of hedge fund returns by benchmarking and hedging the systematic risk embedded in alternative investment strategies.
Jason Wang’s Singapore-based Iridium Asset Management offers the Iridium Alpha Fund running a commodity and equity long/short strategy with a pan-Asia focus taking advantage of global opportunities.
FPP saw investment plummet out of their emerging markets hedge funds during the financial crisis but have since recovered losses investing in Greater China and Korea.
Venus Capital Management founder and CEO Vik Mehrotra believes relative value strategies can outperform directional investments in emerging markets on a risk adjusted basis over the long term.
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
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