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From Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: Samara Kazzi, senior vice president based in Winnington’s Geneva offices, spoke to Opalesque about her firm’s winning funds.
Winnington Capital is a Hong Kong based equity long biased hedge fund investing primarily in Asia, with a strong focus on Greater China. The firm manages US$400 million in AUM. The firm’s website, which opens on a delicious Max Ehrmann’s poem, states that Winnington Capital was founded by Kenneth Hung and became active in June 1999. From then to March 2001, Winnington made profits of about US$11.5m for its clients from an initial capital of US$1m. Then the Trophy Fund was launched.
Kenneth Hung, who has been investing and trading in the North Asian markets since 1983, is Winnington’s CIO and Eddie Wong, who has been trading and managing foreign exchange, fixed income, credit and structured product markets since 1985, joined Winnington in 2005 and is its CEO.
The Trophy Fund
Winnington’s aptly named Trophy Fund was launched in September 2001 and has returned 29.32% YTD (9% in October 07) and +1934% since inception. The fund was ranked Number 1 by Barclays Managed Funds, Asia Risk and Eurekahedge. The performance is mostly from stock picking and running the winners to the end without top slicing. The country exposures are spread around Asia, China and Hong Kong being the most prominent. The sector exposures inclu...................... To view our full article Click here
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