Bloomberg – Leland Lim, who retired as co-head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s macro trading team in the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan, plans to start his own Hong Kong-based hedge fund, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
The new company aims to start an Asia-focused global macro hedge fund around mid-year, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information is private. The fund will trade mainly currency and interest-rate instruments, they said.