{"id":10423,"date":"2009-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"octagon-run-by-ex-gic-staff-to-start-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/octagon-run-by-ex-gic-staff-to-start-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Octagon, Run by Ex-GIC Staff, to Start Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Octagon Capital Management Pte, run by former managers of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.&rsquo;s quantitative-investment group, plans to start a fund that seeks to profit from broad economic trends.             <\/p>\n<p>Octagon, which uses computer models to pick trades, will raise money &ldquo;in the near future&rdquo; for a quantitative macro fund that wagers on currencies, equities, interest rates and commodities in Asia, said Lam Poh Min, 39, co-founder of the Singapore-based hedge-fund firm, in an interview. The firm is looking for a &ldquo;more opportune time&rdquo; to start the fund, Lam said yesterday.     <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601102&#038;sid=aIGKkVS7d8nk&#038;refer=uk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Octagon Capital Management Pte, run by former managers of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.&rsquo;s quantitative-investment group, plans to start a fund that seeks to profit from broad economic trends. Octagon, which uses computer models to pick trades, [&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":[459,4565,207,8499,410,6978,10751,6642,507,48,10749,10752,10750,3226,4977,198],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia","tag-co-founder","tag-commodities","tag-computer-models","tag-currencies","tag-economic-trends","tag-government-of-singapore","tag-interest-rates","tag-investment-group","tag-money","tag-octagon-capital-management","tag-opportune-time","tag-quantitative-macro","tag-quantitative-investment","tag-trades","tag-wagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","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=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}