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Benedicte Gravrand, Geneva: Why should you invest in a FoHFs? What are the recent developments in the FoHFs space? What makes a fund of hedge funds successful? These topics are explored in our Monday series on funds of funds.
We have heard it has been a grim year for Japan’s hedge fund industry, with slow invasive regulations, high taxes, a lack of experienced managers and too many closet-trackers. But one can perform well with a well-diversified portfolio and keeping the equity long/short allocations to a minimum, argues a Tokyo-based FoHFs advisor, Ed Rogers, who spoke to Opalesque about the FoHFs universe in Japan and about his own FoHFs.
About Ed Rogers, RIA, WHA and the WHJMS funds
Most recently Ed Rogers was Deutsche Bank Tokyo’s head of Prime Services sales and a member of DB Tokyo’s Equities Management committee. Prior to that, he was a proprietary trader at Merrill Lynch in London. His Japan career started when, in 1987, he was awarded a Princeton in Asia Fellowship for Japan.
Ed Rogers, CEO and CIO of Rogers Investment Advisors (RIA) works with 3 other staff from his Tokyo offices, sub-advising U.S.-based Wolver Hill Advisors. He set up RIA just over a year ago and it is now the only independent Kanto Finance Board registered, Tokyo-headquartered, Japan-focused fund of hedge funds investment advisor that advises funds open to US and European investors.
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