{"id":10296,"date":"2009-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"kumar-ex-tpg-axon-partner-said-to-start-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/kumar-ex-tpg-axon-partner-said-to-start-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Kumar, Ex-TPG-Axon Partner, Said to Start Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hari Kumar, a founding partner of New York-based asset manager TPG-Axon Capital Management LP, is starting his own hedge fund with $75 million of initial capital from him and a partner, said two people familiar with the plan.             <\/p>\n<p>LionRock Capital Pte, based in Singapore, will begin investing June 1 with the money from Kumar and Julian Snaith, the people said. The multistrategy fund will focus on trading Asia-Pacific stocks, said the people, who declined to be identified because the information isn&rsquo;t public.     <\/p>\n<p>LionRock may raise capital from external investors at a later date, though the timing and terms haven&rsquo;t been decided, they added. Kumar and Snaith declined to comment when reached through e-mail.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aCLQ40AQ5eRo&#038;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hari Kumar, a founding partner of New York-based asset manager TPG-Axon Capital Management LP, is starting his own hedge fund with $75 million of initial capital from him and a partner, said two people familiar with the plan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3017,929,9992,1913,9990,9991,317,3692,9993,48,1129,353],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia-pacific","tag-asset-manager","tag-axon","tag-capital-management","tag-external-investors","tag-hari-kumar","tag-initial-capital","tag-julian","tag-lionrock","tag-money","tag-singapore","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}