Opalesque Publishes Singapore Hedge Fund Manager Roundtable - How the Smallest Country in Asia Grew Into a Hedge Fund Giant

Singapore hedge fund industry enters prime league within global hedge fund jurisdictions, set for further massive growth - unless, as investors warn, private lending space derails Asian hedge funds. Roundtable series provides unique, new insights into global hedge fund industry.

Singapore (PRWEB) April 24, 2008 -- Opalesque, the world's largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has launched the third issue in a series of regional roundtable forums, the "Opalesque Singapore Roundtable."

In each Opalesque Roundtable, Matthias Knab, Opalesque Founder and Director, unites leading hedge fund managers with representatives of the local investor base for an insightful and candid discussion on the hedge fund industry within that region. This informal and lightly moderated forum allows for single- and multi-strategy hedge fund managers to connect with investment advisors, fund of fund managers, and institutional allocators to gain unique insights into the specific developments and idiosyncrasies of each region. Through the publication of the Roundtable Series, Opalesque has created the opportunity for these leading hedge fund managers and investors to share with a broader audience the various issues and advantages found within each hedge fund center.

This Opalesque Roundtable demonstrates impressively how the city-state of Singapore, populated by only 4.78 million inhabitants and territorially the smallest country in Southeast Asia, has entered the prime league within the global hedge fund jurisdictions. Home-grown Singapore hedge funds have reached impressive multi-billion asset bases and many have outperformed their global peers.

The Opalesque Singapore Roundtable was sponsored by Customhouse Group (www.customhousegroup.com) and took place in their Singapore office.

The participants of the Opalesque Singapore Roundtable are:

* Angus Cameron, Komodo Capital Management

* Peter Douglas, GFIA

* David Walter, KBC Alpha Asset Management

* Michael Coleman, Aisling Analytics

* Moe Ibrahim, 3 Degrees Asset Management

* Julian Ings-Chambers, Artradis Fund Management

* Christopher Brandon, Rhicon Currency Management

The first Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) meeting held in Singapore was in 2000. A total of six people came together at that meeting, who were probably all of the hedge fund people working out of Singapore at that time. In this Roundtable transcript, you can learn what has changed since then:

* What were the two distinct growth phases of the hedge fund industry in Singapore?

* Who are the leading players in Singapore, and how did they grow their firms to multi-billion hedge funds?

* How did smart and long-sighted Government initiatives contributed to the success of the local industry, and what is still missing?

* Do the local hedge funds profit from the Government's initiative to foster a home grown private banking industry?

* What hedge fund strategies can be efficiently run out of Singapore?

* Why most Asian hedge funds today are run and managed out of Asia - and no more London or New York?

* Who else is coming to Singapore to set up an office, and for what reasons?

* How is the formalization of the savings market in Asia progressing, and what does this mean for hedge funds?

* How is Asia a fundamentally different place today than ten years ago (Asian Financial Crisis).

* How do international investors now perceive risk and opportunities in Asia?

* Notwithstanding the downturns of the markets YTD in 2008 - is there another disaster waiting to happen in the private lending space?

The Opalesque Singapore Roundtable Script can be downloaded here:

http://www.opalesque.com/newsite/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableSIN

Matthias Knab, Director of Opalesque Ltd, moderates the Opalesque Roundtables. Matthias Knab is an internationally recognized expert on hedge funds and alternatives and has frequently served as chairman of hedge fund conferences in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Miami, Bahamas, Stockholm, Dubai etc. In addition, he has presented or moderated at hedge fund events in Sydney, Cape Town, Madrid, and Bombay, and lectured at numerous universities on the subjects of hedge funds and the state of the global alternative asset management industry.

The previously published Opalesque Australia Roundtable Script (March 25th) can be downloaded here: http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableAUS

The Opalesque New Zealand Roundtable Script (published March 17th) can be downloaded here: www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=Roundtable

About Opalesque

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Opalesque Roundtable Series:

In an Opalesque Roundtable, we unite some of the leading hedge fund managers (single and multi strategy managers) as well as representatives of the local investor base (institutions, fund of funds, advisers) to gain unique insights into the specific idiosyncrasies and developments, the issues and advantages of individual global hedge fund centers.

No matter if you are a hedge fund investor looking for new talent, a hedge fund interested in diversifying your investor base or a service provider looking for new clients, you will get to know some of the leading heads of each hedge fund center and find invaluable information and intelligence right on your desk, without any travel involved.

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