{"id":4224,"date":"2006-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"stratton-street-capital-launched-hx2-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/stratton-street-capital-launched-hx2-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Stratton Street Capital launched HX2 Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stratton Street Capital announced the launch of HX2 Fund from the<br \/>beginning of April. It will be managed by Dominic McEwan and Jeff<br \/>Atherton, who together have over 40 years combined experience in the<br \/>Japanese market. McEwan has managed the fund since its launch in 2000,<br \/>while Atherton joined him last year. It is a 2 x leveraged version of<br \/>the Japanese equity long\/ short Himeji Fund which has returned<br \/>approximately 8% per annum at a volatility of 4%-6% since its inception<br \/>in 2000. Over the period the Nikkei has lost 8%.<\/p>\n<p>The new fund is expected to deliver twice the returns of between 15%-20%<br \/>with volatility of 8%-12%.<\/p>\n<p>Himeji is a stock-picking fund with a large cap bias. It is not active<br \/>in futures but makes equal performance out of long and short positions<br \/>historically whilst maintaining on average a net 15% long position. The<br \/>focus is very much on creating alpha rather than using beta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Himeji was designed as a low risk fund that gives good constant steady<br \/>returns over an extended period of time. Its returns have been earned<br \/>using an 85% balance sheet usage last year on average. That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s below peer<br \/>group average balance sheet usage. We consider HX2 will have a more<br \/>normal balance sheet use and will appeal to a different wider investor<br \/>base&#8221; commented Andrew Main, Managing Partner.<\/p>\n<p>Launched with approximately $15m, it will review its capacity at $125m<br \/>and on an ongoing basis, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The fund is yen based with US dollar and Sterling classes. It is<br \/>domiciled in Guernsey and listed on the Irish Stock Exchange<\/p>\n<p>Stratton Street Capital LLP is a London based specialist Asian Alternate<br \/>Investment Manager with Synthetic Warrant Funds, Japan Long Short Funds<br \/>and Asian Fixed Income Funds. Current Assets under Management are around<br \/>$300 million. It is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services<br \/>Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Tomoko Kenny<\/p>\n<p>Marketing Manager<\/p>\n<p>Stratton Street Capital LLP<\/p>\n<p>10 Babmaes Street&nbsp; London SW1Y 6HD<\/p>\n<p>Phone: + 44 20 7766 0888<\/p>\n<p>Direct: + 44 20 7766 0824<\/p>\n<p>Fax: + 44 20 7766 0860<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stratton Street Capital announced the launch of HX2 Fund from thebeginning of April. It will be managed by Dominic McEwan and JeffAtherton, who together have over 40 years combined experience in theJapanese market. McEwan has managed the fund since its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}