{"id":11656,"date":"2009-09-03T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11656"},"modified":"2009-09-03T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T10:38:08","slug":"ex-lehman-trader-bedwick-to-manage-ogi-global-macro-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/ex-lehman-trader-bedwick-to-manage-ogi-global-macro-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lehman Trader Bedwick to Manage OGI Global Macro Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; OGI Capital Partners Ltd., a Japanese hedge fund with 3.5 billion yen ($40 million) in assets, plans to almost double in size by starting a global macro hedge fund to be run by Allan Bedwick, a former proprietary trader at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The OGI Global Macro Fund will start this month with seed money from an overseas institutional investor of 3 billion yen and wager on stocks, bonds and currencies globally with a focus in Asia, said Naoya Takahashi, OGI\u2019s head of fund management.<\/p>\n<p>The global macro fund will be the third fund offered by OGI this year, after the firm started a Japan-focused long-short equity fund and a Japanese long-only stock fund in July. OGI joins Sparx Group Co., Asia\u2019s biggest hedge fund, in offering a global macro fund as demand for the strategy rises in a market short of similar offerings after global hedge funds had their worst year on record in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=aSChzFhsXruE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; OGI Capital Partners Ltd., a Japanese hedge fund with 3.5 billion yen ($40 million) in assets, plans to almost double in size by starting a global macro hedge fund to be run by Allan Bedwick, a former proprietary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5895,11708,4747,4528],"class_list":["post-11656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-fund-management","tag-hedge-funds","tag-institutional-investor","tag-long-short-equity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11657,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}