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Then the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 have people understand that long-only equity and leveraged properties are not necessarily the best asset classes, so they began to be interested in these structured products and vehicles covered. For many years there was no interest in hedge funds based in Asia. If they were interested to invest in a hedge fund, they would in a New York or London managed product.

However, the dynamic is changing. Chunli Hou, Co-founder and director of Andante Capital Management believes that "Asia has a larger pool of talent quantitative, we can recruit and integrate in the future due to the effects of the global financial crisis and changes in power Regional.

Hedge funds that follow, experts and investors in hedge funds attended the Opalesque Hong Kong Roundtable was held at the local office of Newedge Group, which also sponsored the event:

1. George Long, founder and consulting Chief Investment Officer, LIM
2. Tim Rainsford, Asia-Pacific Managing Director, Man Investments
3. James Craig, a portfolio manager AM Investment Partners
4. Kirby Daley, strategist and chief of Capital Introductions Asia, Newedge Group
5. Andrew Higgins, Co-Founder, Northwest Funds
6. Chunli Hou, Co-founder and director of Capital Management Andante
7. Brian MacDougall, executive director, 3A Asia

The Opalesque Hong Kong Roundtable can be downloaded here:
http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableHK2009.html

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This page 25 Opalesque Roundtable also highlights:

What strategies are directed by the inflow of Asian hedge funds experience?
What are investors in hedge funds in Asia to seek after the crisis?
How the ventilation strategy of Asian hedge funds start-up has changed, and why is it now more interesting than in the past?
What are the possibilities of Asian hedge funds pursue now?
Is the trend of "institutionalization" slow and boutiques reign going forward?
Is it true that most investors have traditionally invested based on these three crutches, size, background, and the quality of other investors? What investors should instead be looking for?
What are some of the latest research or innovation in financing from Asia?
How does the process work permit in Hong Kong? What are the benefits for hedge funds to establish an office or executing strategies for Asia in Hong Kong?
What structural deficits remain in the Asian financial infrastructure?

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