BusinessWeek – KTOs Capital Partners Co., a Japanese fund of hedge-fund advisory firm, aims to raise and invest 30 billion yen ($333 million) this year in new Asian hedge funds being established as global financial crisis ebbs.
Satoko Koshida, founding partner of the Tokyo-based firm, is teaming up with Tetsuo Tanimura, the head of hedge-fund consulting firm C2G Advisors Co., to mine new funds run by former traders and managers of major financial institutions, Koshida said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday.