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New Managers January 2015

FUND PROFILES: Three Arrows Capital, Jerica Capital Management

 

Three Arrows never short of ideas with emerging markets Kyle Davies

Kyle Davies is co-founder and chairman at Three Arrows Capital, a Singapore-based hedge fund management company specializing in emerging markets. He recently talked to Matthias Knab on Opalesque TV about his fund and emerging markets.

Davies used to work at Credit Suisse on the exotic derivatives equity desk. There, he realized the extant of opportunities on the buy side and in emerging markets.

He founded Three Arrows in 2012 in San Francisco with a partner, Su Zhu. They met at high school at Phillips Academy, studied math and economics together at Columbia University, and then worked together in Hong Kong. In 2014, Lance Fithian, formerly co-head of Origination and Structuring-Asia Pacific at Newedge, joined Three Arrows as President and COO. Now the company has a staff of 24, with main offices in Singapore, and looking to expand in Europe.

"We have on boarded junior, middle and senior level personnel in all divisions," he says. "Every three to six months, the headcount grows by about 50% and we go and do on average two new markets."

Three Arrows looks at emerging markets globally, with a focus on cross-border market fragmentation.

Davies believes that emerging markets are going through a huge evolution as borders are opening up. "Markets that were opaque in OTC are moving to more transparent OTC and we are seeing lots of new listings as well," he notes. India is a good example, he adds, as in the last couple of years, there has been some offshore listings in the currency futures, a developing OTC environment, and greater interest in exchange traded instruments. China too offere......................

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This article was published in Opalesque's New Managers a top-down monthly analysis, news and research publication on the global emerging manager space.
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