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Opalesque Exclusive - van Biema Value Partners launches Asia Value Fund to outside investors, niche fund of funds invests in Pan Asian value managers

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

From the Opalesque team: van Biema Value Partners, LLC announced the official launch of van Biema Asia Value Fund, Ltd., domiciled in the Cayman Islands. The Fund commenced operations on August 1, 2008, having received an initial commitment of approximately US$215.0 million from one of our large existing institutional clients. The objective of the van Biema Asia Value Fund, Ltd. is to provide investors with a diversified portfolio of small, high quality Pan-Asian Value managers?

The Asia Value Fund expects to maintain a small, concentrated portfolio of managers, generally less than 20. The Fund will not be diversified across investment styles as is the case with many funds of funds, but is rather a highly specialized, niche fund of hedge funds for the sophisticated high net worth and institutional investor. Our niche, the Value discipline, has demonstrated, over the long term, significant outperformance over market benchmarks in both practical experience and in a number of academic studies. The Fund achieves its diversification across the Pan-Asia geography, market capitalization, and asset classes as well as the specific Value style employed by specific managers.

The firm's founding Partner, Michael van Biema (Ph.D. from Columbia University, B.A. from Princeton University in Electrical Engineering), was on the faculty of Columbia Business School from 1992 to 2004 where he has taught general corporate finance, capital m......................

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