Asian Investor – Whilst reports of their impending extinction are over-blown, it has been a year of famine for Japanese hedge funds. Finding indigenous Japanese hedge fund managers in the wild is incredibly taxing.
In their natural habitat, they are reclusive, and this follows through into their captive state, such as on stage at the Tokyo Hedge funds world Conference. Luckily, the troop of hedge managers at the emerging managers` showcase are happy to be heard.
“There`s been bad news and data fixation in the second half, the grass seemed greener elsewhere and investors left, but I think we`ll get a tailwind next year, alpha opportunities in the first half followed up with beta,” says Shintaro Tomita, ex-Goldman Sachs sell-side trader and now CEO of new hedge fund Bluebear Investment Managers. “Before starting a hedge fund, I only had broker experience, Perhaps I wasn`t smart enough to be an analyst, but I loved trading, day and night. So does my partner, we love equity. We`re very good at trading.”
