Bloomberg – Rogers Investment Advisors Y.K., a Tokyo-based hedge-fund advisory firm, said it hired Rory Kennedy, Yuka Watanabe and Masayo Fukushima as it prepares to start its second fund investing in Asia.
New York-based Wolver Hill, advised by Rogers Investment, plans to start a private-equity fund with initial capital of as much as $30 million, according to Ed Rogers, chief executive officer of Rogers Investment. The fund, which will start on Nov. 1, would be the company’s first non-Japan fund and aims to have maximum capacity of $250 million, Rogers said.
