{"id":45574,"date":"2014-12-22T07:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45574"},"modified":"2014-12-22T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:24:07","slug":"former-blackrock-macquarie-heads-to-launch-zentific-hedge-fund-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/former-blackrock-macquarie-heads-to-launch-zentific-hedge-fund-in-asia.html","title":{"rendered":"Former BlackRock, Macquarie Heads To Launch Asia Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/networking-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-43847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/networking-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"networking-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/networking-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/networking-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The former head of BlackRock&#8217;s Scientific Active Equity department in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong announced plans to start\u00a0hedge fund\u00a0<em>Zentific Investment Management<\/em>, a\u00a0Pan Asia Market Neutral fund with capital from institutional clients, founding partners and his own HS Sponsor Fund, Reuters reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Lee and\u00a0Burke Lau, who formerly was Head of <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span> &amp; Japan Quant Research at Macquarie Securities, will be joined\u00a0by a team of research and programming professionals with investment experience in <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The business side will be led by <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Friedlander<\/span> who was formerly Head of Asia Operations, Technology and Onboarding for Millennium Capital Management Asia. Friedlander previously also served as COO and CFO of APG Asia based in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zentific brings together professionals from two of the dominant market neutral franchises in<span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span> \u2013 BlackRock and Macquarie \u2013 and overlays institutional standards and risk controls developed over several years at one of world&#8217;s largest pension funds \u2013 APG.&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Johannes Kaps<\/span>, Founder and CEO of HSG, said, &#8220;We have known Chris and his team for many years, and expect their consistent alpha generation through cutting edge research in short, mid and long-term horizon strategies to provide a sought-after exposure for institutional allocators globally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zentific is anticipated to be one of the more significant Asian fund launches of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. 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We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The former head of BlackRock&#8217;s Scientific Active Equity department in Hong Kong announced plans to start\u00a0hedge fund\u00a0Zentific Investment Management, a\u00a0Pan Asia Market Neutral fund with capital from institutional clients, founding partners and his own HS Sponsor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574","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=45574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45578,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions\/45578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}