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Opalesque Exclusive: German hedge fund opens to international investors From Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: Arsago is an alternative asset management firm, with a strategic focus on managing and developing a diversified family of single manager total-return investment strategies. It was founded in 2001 in Frankfurt and in 2002, the firm launched the arsago Global Hedge, a global macro hedge fund strategy, as a registered bond subscribed by German institutional investors. The investment management company arsago Global Hedge AG, from which hedge funds are now run, was opened in Switzerland, near Zurich, in 2003 to allow non-German investors to invest in the strategy via a Cayman Islands hedge fund.

In 2005, Citigroup launched the arsago Global Macro-CI, to be managed by arsago. This was the first regulated global macro single hedge fund in Germany based on the new investment laws. Arsago decided to concentrate all hedge fund activities under one roof and effectively span off the German domestic real estate business. The arsago Quant Strategies fund was launched as a Cayman Islands hedge fund in July that year, after a successful track-record from institutional advisory mandates within traditional German ‘Spezialfonds’.

Opalesque talked to Daniel Bittner, arsago’s CEO about the arsago STIRT (short term interest rate trading) which was launched at the end of November 2006 as a Spezialfonds for German investors and whic......................

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