Hedge Fund

'China's George Soros' joins Hong Kong firm

10 May 2013

Dai Jixin, a former manager of Soros Fund Management, plans to start a new hedge fund in Hong Kong backed by a trader dubbed "China's George Soros", according to company filings.

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Richland Capital surprises with hedge funds exit

1 May 2013

Hong Kong-based Richland Capital Management is shutting down its hedge fund operation, chief investment officer Alex Au said yesterday. The decision was unexpected as Richland has outperformed...

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SFC wins battle with Tiger Asia over civil court role

30 Apr 2013

The Court of Final Appeal has abruptly dismissed a challenge to the powers of the city’s market regulator brought by hedge fund Tiger Asia, validating the watchdog’s use of civil courts in a...

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The Week Explained: Overconfidence

28 Jan 2013

Hedge fund managers often regard themselves as the masters of the fund management universe.

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2012: How Wall Street got it wrong

5 Jan 2013

From hedge fund manager John Paulson's call for a collapse in Europe to Morgan Stanley's warning that US stocks would decline, Wall Street got little right in its prognosis for the year just ended...

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Bill Hwang guilty of illegal trading at Tiger Asia Management

14 Dec 2012

Tiger Asia Management, the New York-based hedge fund run by Bill Hwang, admitted illegally using inside information to trade Chinese bank stocks and agreed to criminal and civil settlements of...

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

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Hedge-fund managers may emerge as real winners of Japan's poll

This may be the election that Japan bears such as Kyle Bass have been waiting for.

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Chinese funds head to Ireland to crack Europe

China's top fund managers are showing a strong appetite for opening back offices or having funds registered in Dublin, to pave the way to issuing fund products across Europe and even globally.

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There is little comfort from the line-up of main investors

The initial public offering of the mainland's largest general insurer, People's Insurance Company (Group) of China (PICC), raises lots of doubts.

The firm is trying to answer them with a US...

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Where now for the Hong Kong dollar?

Hong Kong's determination to maintain its exchange-rate peg to the US dollar has the confidence of currency-forward traders even as it fails to sway hedge-fund investor William Ackman.

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MANAGEMENT

Pandit quits as Citigroup's chief

Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit resigned abruptly yesterday, effective immediately, a shock change at the top of the No 3 US bank the day after a surprisingly strong quarterly earnings...

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1823 Call Centre is no ringing endorsement