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From Sagar Chakraverty, Opalesque Asia:

SPARX, the largest hedge fund manager in Asia with nearly $7bn in AUM, is positioned to take full advantage of the forthcoming opportunities in technology, ecology and energy.

This is what Shuei Abe, a veteran and a pioneer in the Asian hedge funds industry and the founder of Tokyo-based SPARX, shared with Opalesque's founder Matthias Knab in a recent video interview (here).

"I never thought I would be running hedge fund" Abe started his career in the US, working for Nomura, an Asian investment bank. Later he worked for Quantum fund with George Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management. In 1989, he returned to Japan to start his own business.

"I never thought that I would be running hedge fund after I left New York. My only expertise back then was to do research on Japanese companies and investors. So, I decided to start a small boutique to do investing in smaller companies because there were no companies that specialized in that area and I luckily got some accounts from overseas investment companies. That's how I started," said Abe.

SPARX was launched in July-89, at a time when there was huge valuation gap between the large and the small markets, which was not sustainable. Within one year, the firm's small-caps strategy got a big boost ......................

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