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Hedge fund Rising Stars revisited – Prized debt fund manager explains `liquidity is a function of your relationships` in Asia

Thursday, September 06, 2007

From Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: A Singapore-based distressed debt star fund manager discusses senior secured loans, the liquidity crunch and Basel II.

Prior to establishing Finansa Singapore Pte Ltd, the investment advisor to the Asian Debt Funds, in 2002, Moe Ibrahim worked at Lazard from 1999 and established Lazard’s Asian distressed debt fund in Singapore. He is now a permanent member of the Singaporean community with numerous business contacts across South-East Asia. Running the two Asian Debt funds led him to become a director of BLR Management (Singapore) and Bintan Lagoon Resort (Indonesia), and chairman at Senbel Fine Chemicals Company, Inc. (Philippines). He is however a full-time manager of the Asian Debt funds.

Mr. Ibrahim has traded over US$7 billion face amount of distressed debt in Asia over the past seven years, with over 100 counter-parties globally. Such is his experience that the Asian Masters of Hedge Awards awarded him the Best Distressed Debt Fund and the Best Singapore Hedge Fund in 2004. In 2005, he was bestowed the Best Distressed Fund by Asian Investor Magazine.

To crown it all, the June edition of Institutional Investor News, which drew up a list of 20 ‘up-and-coming executives from around the world who are likely to impact the global hedge fund and alternative investment industry’ (full arti......................

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