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		<title>Japan July retail trust funds value hits 10-mth high</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The value of Japanese retail-targeted mutual funds rose to a 10-month high of 58.8 trillion yen ($613 billion) in July, lifted by inflows into international equities funds and strength in share prices, an industry body said on Thursday. It was the sixth straight month of increases in the value of publicly placed investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokio Marine to Cut Hedge-Fund Investments This Year After Rout</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan&#8217;s biggest casualty insurer, plans to trim hedge-fund investments and shift more of its portfolio in the industry to strategies such as macro and long-short equity funds. Tokio Marine &#38; Nichido Fire Insurance Co., a unit of Tokio Marine Holdings with 8.4 trillion yen ($90 billion) in assets, will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-DKR Oasis Analyst Eechaute Plans Japan-Focused Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Frederic Eechaute, a former senior analyst at DKR Oasis Management Co. LP, will start a Japan- focused equity hedge fund that trades stocks using its own analyst database. Eechaute, who will split his time between Tokyo and Sydney, along with Stephen Good, who formerly worked in the Japanese equity sales department at Mizuho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meiji Yasuda, With $244 Billion, to Cut Hedge Funds Holdings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., with 23 trillion yen ($244 billion) in assets, said it will cut its investments in hedge funds this year as it switches to investments with steadier returns. Japan&#8217;s third-largest life insurer will reduce its allocation to the industry by &#8220;several tens of billions of yen,&#8221; from 64.6 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sumitomo Trust Finance to Start New Japan-Focused Hedge Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Sumitomo Trust Finance (H.K.) Ltd., the asset-management unit of Japan&#8217;s fifth-biggest bank, will start a new multi-strategy hedge fund that invests in Japanese stocks, index options, futures and credit-default swaps. The Tactical Equity Concepts-Japan Fund, also called TEC- Japan, will start June 29 with 10 billion yen ($105 million) of seed money from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s First Short-Biased Hedge Fund Bets Exporters Will Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Alphex Investments Co., the adviser to Japan&#8217;s first short-biased hedge fund, plans to sell exporters&#8217; shares, wagering they&#8217;ll fall on a rising yen and weak global economy, boosting the fund that started in March. &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing right now is nothing more than a bear- market rally,&#8221; Ichiro Takamatsu, 44, chief executive officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unison Capital raises Aderans share offer by 20%</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Tokyo &#8211; Japanese equity fund Unison Capital said on Monday it has raised its planned offer for shares in wig maker Aderans Holdings by 20 percent to 1,200 yen per share. Unsion Capital and Aderans are locked in a battle with U.S. hedge fund Steel Partners for shareholder votes at Aderans&#8217; annual meeting scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yen Drops as Report Says N. Korea Launched Short-Range Missile</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The yen declined to a two-week low versus the euro and weakened against the dollar after Yonhap News said North Korea launched a short-range missile, posing a threat to the region&#8217;s security. South Korea&#8217;s won fell for the first time in three days versus the dollar after North Korea said it also &#8220;successfully&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aozora Posts 242.6 Billion Yen Loss on GMAC, Hedge Fund Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Aozora Bank Ltd., the Japanese lender controlled by Cerberus Capital Management LP, posted its first loss in a decade, after investments in U.S. lender GMAC LLC and Bernard Madoff soured. The bank booked a 242.6 billion yen ($2.5 billion) deficit in the year ended March 31, compared with a profit of 5.93 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JGB futures fall towards 6-mth low on supply worries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian Unlimited &#8211; Japanese government bond futures fell on Monday, edging back towards six-month lows hit earlier this month, with traders citing selling by hedge funds on the back of concerns about rising debt issuance. The Ministry of Finance said it would issue an additional 16.9 trillion yen ($175 billion) in JGBs in the fiscal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meiji Yasuda to cut unhedged foreign bonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interactive Investor &#8211; Japan&#8217;s Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co said on Monday it planned to cut its unhedged foreign bond holdings while increasing its hedged foreign bond holdings this business year to offset currency risks. The nation&#8217;s third-largest life insurer by assets also said it has been experimenting with trades in yen swap rates since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom of Japan Hedge Fund Returns 2% on Taiyo Yuden, Nipponkoa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Tadashi Mukai, returning to run his own his hedge fund after being the nation&#8217;s top performer in 2007, posted a 2.1 percent gain in March for his Wisdom of Japan Fund by betting on rising and falling stock prices. The Epic Partners Investments Co. fund, which employs a so- called market-neutral strategy, doubled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Horizon may start second fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK &#8211; New Horizon Capital, a Japanese private equity firm, said it may start raising its second fund this year as it sees opportunities to make money from investing in struggling companies. New Horizon has five potential transactions in its pipeline, Chief Executive Officer Yasushi Ando said at the Reuters Private Equity and Hedge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ginga Beats Japan Hedge Fund Rivals With Telecommunications Bet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ginga Service Sector Fund, the third-best performing Japan-focused hedge fund in 2008, held its ranking in January by investing only in the telecommunications and services companies. The 3.4 billion yen ($36 million) fund, advised by Tokyo- based Stats Investment Management Co., returned 0.7 percent last month, extending its 13 percent advance in 2008, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Hedge Fund 21st Century Asset to Seek Takeover Targets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; 21st Century Asset Management Co., run by former Nomura Asset Management Co. executive Takanori Shimizu, said it may seek growth through takeovers after the worst year on record for hedge funds. Shimizu, 63, said he will also cut costs as the Tokyo-based firm strives to boost assets under management to 40 billion yen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kanetsu Will Close DragonHorse, Exit Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Kanetsu Asset Management Co. will liquidate hedge funds, including Japan&#8217;s best performer last year, as commodities trading shrinks, a company executive said. The Tokyo-based firm will shut DragonHorse, which according to data provider Eurekahedge Pte returned 27 percent in 2008, the highest among Japan-based hedge funds. Kanetsu Asset will also close two other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Citadel Manager Returns 18% With Atom Japan Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg -&#160;Atsuko Tsuchiya, the Japanese hedge- fund adviser who left Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. to found her own firm, led Atom Japan Equity Fund to an 18 percent return in 2008, beating rivals who suffered the worst year on record. Tsuchiya, 36, achieved the gains in the fund&#8217;s first full year of trading, withstanding market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparx to Miss March 2011 Asset Target on Market Rout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg -&#160;Sparx Group Co., Asia&#8217;s biggest hedge-fund manager, will likely miss its asset management target of 5 trillion yen ($57 billion) by March 2011 because of redemptions and losses amid the global market rout. The firm has cut costs to counter the biggest market losses since the Great Depression, an effort that hasn&#8217;t prevented its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daiwa drops big fund plan after Blackstone talks fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Daiwa Securities Group Inc, Japan&#8217;s second-largest brokerage, said that it would drop its plans for a large private equity fund after talks with Blackstone fell through. Daiwa had been in talks with private equity firm Blackstone Group LP to form a fund targeting Asian companies, Daiwa Securities Chief Executive Shigeharu Suzuki told Reuters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PXP Vietnam to start hedge fund, bets on stock recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanhnien &#8211; The PXP Vietnam Value Fund will raise as much as $200 million to invest in undervalued stocks, Snowball said. &#160; PXP, the initials of Phan Xi Pang, Vietnam&#8217;s highest mountain, is betting that the stock market will recover as inflation eases and the nation&#8217;s trade deficit widens at a slower pace. The benchmark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PXP Vietnam to Start Hedge Fund, Bets on Stock Market Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; PXP Vietnam Asset Management, which oversees $225 million, plans to start a hedge fund by early next year as it seeks bargains in Asia&#8217;s second-worst-performing stock market, said co-founder Kevin Snowball. The PXP Vietnam Value Fund will raise as much as $200 million to invest in undervalued stocks, Snowball said today. PXP, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clare takes out unprecedented loan to invest in stock market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge Varsity Online &#8211; Clare College has borrowed &#163;15 million to invest in the stock market. The unprecedented inflation-linked loan is due to be repaid in 2048 and the College expects to make a profit of around &#163;36 million. Clare has already invested &#163;3.5 million and aims to have invested the full amount within two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settling down</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times of Malta &#8211; The situation in the international financial markets, although still displaying signs of uncertainty, seems to be settling down. Governments in the major economies, US, UK, Germany, France and Italy, no longer seem to be chasing fairies (or bad witches!), but appear to have got ahead of the situation. The money markets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar and Vietnam set up agriculture fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Dubai &#8211; Gas exporter Qatar and Vietnam have set up a $1 billion fund (56 million pounds) to invest in sectors including agriculture, a Qatar-based newspaper reported on Tuesday. Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority QIA.L, will provide 90 percent of the fund&#8217;s equity, Gulf Times reported, citing Phung The Long, Vietnam&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speculation Game is Over: Hedge Fund Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC &#8211; As losses mount, hedge funds no longer have the ability to drive speculation in the markets, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer and partner at Eclectica hedge fund told &#34;Squawk Box Europe&#34; on Tuesday. &#34;There is no role for speculation or speculators today. This is kaput,&#34; Hendry said. &#34;If we were Second World War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling Prices Lift Investors&#8217; Cautious Mood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[istockAnalyst.com- Investors face something of a new landscape in financial markets this week after tumbling oil and food prices eased immediate concerns about inflation, potentially freeing central banks to fight slow economic growth. The focus, however, will also be on some old stalwarts &#8211; a continuing stream of corporate earnings reports and the U.S. employment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Provident offers precious metals fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK- Friends Provident will offer a precious metals fund to retail investors looking for protection against inflation and financial market turmoil, the company said on Monday. The fund, managed by U.S.-based Castlestone Management, only holds physical gold, silver and platinum. Half of the fund, the Aliquot Precious Metals fund, is invested in gold, 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund managers most negative on equities in 10 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters- Fund managers are gloomier about equities than at any time in at least the last 10 years and aversion to risk is close to what it was during the Bear Stearns crisis in March, a Merrill Lynch poll showed on Wednesday. In its July poll of 191 global fund managers, the investment bank also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negative bond returns test Asia investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONG KONG (Reuters)- As risk appetite for equities and property wanes, investors are willing to endure negative real returns for bonds from China, Singapore and Hong Kong because their economies are seen better equipped to tackle inflation. Conventionally, bond yields have to be sufficient to compensate investors for their holdings as inflation erodes value over [...]]]></description>
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