UOB Global Capital, an asset management subsidiary of Singapore's United Overseas Bank, is distributing a hedge fund managed by Geneva-based Alternative Investment Management Research AIMR. The SOGAsia Fund is a low volatility, multi-strategy, event-driven and equity arbitrage JapanAsia hedge fund.
Michael Landau, managing director at UOB Global Capital in Paris, one of its three bases including Singapore and New York, says the young firm, founded in 1998, is owned 70% by UOB and 30% by its executive management, and specializes in providing long-only, hedge fund and private equity strategies with an Asian focus to Western institutional investors. He declined to quantify the firm's current assets under management.
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