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China specialist readies small/mid-cap China-focused Asia Ex-Japan fund, Former family office portfolio managers launch event-driven hedge fund, IPM launches two institutional Global CTA programs together with Joe Roseman and Dylan Grice,

Friday, July 13, 2007

Opalesque Exclusive: China specialist readies small/mid-cap China-focused Asia Ex-Japan fund Sunny Li's Shanghai based Pinpoint Investment Advisor is readying a small/mid-cap China-focused Asia Ex-Japan fund for July. The highly-regarded China specialist is expected to start with $30 to $50 million and soft-close at $150 million - a figure that industry watchers say will be reached quite soon given the exceptional performance and soaring assets in its flagship offering, the Pinpoint China Fund.

The small/mid-cap fund will have a capacity of $200 million. Target annual returns are in excess of 30%.

Despite choppy markets, the Pinpoint China Fund was up 52% net in the first half of 2007 after returned 140% net in Year 2006. Meanwhile, strong inflows have more than doubled its assets under management to $460 million in the past six months, and the fund has been soft-closed. Corporate website: Source

Former family office portfolio managers launch event-driven hedge fund From Finalternatives.com: A pair of former family office portfolio managers is looking to buzz its way into the hedge fund space with a new event-driven offering. Winston Wei and David Kazarnosky of New York-based Quartersaw Investments this month launched their maiden hedge fund, the Quartersaw Investments Fund, a long/short, event-driven vehicle with $16 million in assets.

“The fund is very opportunistic ......................

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