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Robin Bowie by Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:

In many ways, the tale of Dexion Capital reflects the highs and lows and development of the European hedge fund industry over the last decade. Group chairman and founder Robin Bowie started the firm in 2002 as an advisory business. "When we started we were consultants advising people on allocations to funds of funds and from that base we decided that we could launch our own products" he says. Their initial research and subsequent database of fund of fund performance led them to the realisation that two different investor bases had a demand for an investment product that was not based on a Cayman Island offshore structure.

These investors were the life companies and the private wealth managers and the products that Dexion produced were famously closed-ended - funds structured as listed companies where the investment was in a share that could be bought or sold in the same manner as any other share.

The first and still the biggest of the Dexion funds is Dexion Absolute, based on Harriss Aurora Investment Advisors fund of funds and this product was joined by Dexion Equity, managed by K2; Dexion Trading, managed initially by FRM and then Permal and Dexion Alpha latterly Dexion Commodities - now closed, which was managed by RMF Man Investments.

Bowie says: "Our business has always been to focus on investor requirement and raising funds that we think investors want to invest in." The firm has diversif......................

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