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Opalesque Hong Kong Roundtable: Reverse brain drain from New York, London boosts Asian hedge fund industry

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Then the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 made people realize that long-only leveraged equities or property were not necessarily the best asset classes, so they started to be interested in structured products or hedged vehicles. For many years, there was no interest in Asian-based hedge funds. If they were interested investing in a hedge fund … Read more

Asia experiences wave of hedge fund startups, “Which is exactly what we saw post the Asian crisis?”

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Peter Douglas, principal of GFIA, a Singapore-based consulting firm, said that the rebound of Asian hedge funds as seen by these startups, is similar to the developments post the last Asian crisis: “A lot of the great names of the Asian hedge fund industry were actually set up around the end of the Asian crisis. … Read more