WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – RAB Capital plc, has announced the launching of a Japan long-short equity hedge fund. The new portfolio will be focusing \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdmainly on liquid large-cap stocks\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdaccording to the released statements. The new fund, RAB Japan Fund will begin trading June 1, and has been seeded with approximately with US $40-50 million.<\/p>\n
Robin Cosgrove and co-portfolio manager, Nick Reid, will manage the new Japan hedge fund. Both managers have a combined experience of about 25 years managing long\/short, and long only portfolios, with about 15 years residing in Japan. The managers will strive to deliver absolute returns to the funds investors, through a careful analysis and selection of stocks, utilizing \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bddisciplined risk management\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd according to the released information.<\/p>\n
Mr. Reid worked for eleven years as a senior Japanese fund manager at Gartmore, seven of those years were spent working in the Tokyo Office and he was responsible \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdfor co-managing the long\/short portfolios and managing all the high performance mutual and focus funds\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd. Robin Cosgrove was formerly the Director of Lotus Japan Fund; he covered major institutional clients on Japanese equities at Morgan Stanley (Tokyo) and UBS Warburg (Tokyo) according to published reports.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the new Japanese hedge fund lunch, Chairman of RAB Capital, Michael Alen-Buckley, said, \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdWe are delighted to have such a highly experienced and talented management team join RAB. Japan is emerging from a 14-year slump, the financial system has stabilized and valuations are extremely attractive, offering exciting return opportunities. The RAB Japan Fund is attracting a lot of interest from investors, and going forward we expect it to become a core strategy at RAB.\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd Alen-Buckley added.<\/p>\n
RAB Capital manages US $1.1B of assets for institutions and private clients, the asset manager currently overseas five hedge fund strategies and two funds of hedge funds according to company information.<\/p>\n
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