{"id":10917,"date":"2009-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ex-lehman-trader-to-start-credit-hedge-fund-as-banks-pare-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/ex-lehman-trader-to-start-credit-hedge-fund-as-banks-pare-risks.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lehman Trader to Start Credit Hedge Fund as Banks Pare Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assan Din, a former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. credit trader, is setting up a hedge fund to trade corporate bonds and derivatives in Asia.             <\/p>\n<p>SaKa Capital&rsquo;s fund, which will have a capacity of more than $500 million, will start in September with $25 million to $50 million sourced mainly from founding members and friends, Din, 38, said. The Singapore-based firm will subsequently raise capital from institutional investors, including U.S. pension funds and endowments, once it builds a track record, he added.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aJ3.zmwRoZgk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assan Din, a former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. credit trader, is setting up a hedge fund to trade corporate bonds and derivatives in Asia. SaKa Capital&rsquo;s fund, which will have a capacity of more than $500 million, will start in [&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":[3017,4520,1412,5309,13602,11708,4504,8836,449,129,13601,123,13603],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia-pacific","tag-credit-markets","tag-decade","tag-europe","tag-faith","tag-hedge-funds","tag-investors","tag-last-thursday","tag-liquidity","tag-losses","tag-performance-strategies","tag-profits","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","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=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}