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China and Japan offer best options for hedge funds in terms of talents and opportunities

Monday, January 16, 2012

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Tony Morrongiello
From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia:

Asia is offering the most fertile space for hedge funds opportunities, particularly China and Japan which could become the biggest talent pool in the world in the next five or 10 years next to the United States, agreed panellists in the recent Opalesque Geneva Roundtable sponsored by Custom House Group and Taussig Capital and held at the offices of Caliburn Capital Partners.

"The most fertile space is undoubtedly Asia, particularly the greater China space where we see the best source of new talent, particularly coming out of mainland China. If you fast forward five years or 10 years, it is going to become, after the US, the biggest asset management talent pool in the world," declared Tony Morrongiello, Managing Partner at Caliburn Capital Partners, a fund of funds manager which focuses on select emerging markets, the commodities complex and inefficient niches.

Morrongiello credited China’s strong economy which is now the second largest in the world and has the edge over other nations. Also, Chinese asset management firms have the resources "to develop extremely deep research benches and have a fast growing domestic equity market to tap into," he said.

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