{"id":57827,"date":"2017-05-03T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57827"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:36:30","slug":"ex-rbc-trader-damian-edwards-starts-asia-event-driven-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2017\/ex-rbc-trader-damian-edwards-starts-asia-event-driven-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-RBC Trader Damian Edwards Starts Asia Event-Driven Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Damian Edwards, a former managing director at Royal Bank of Canada, is starting an Asian event-driven hedge fund to take advantage of a surge in mergers and acquisitions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Metrica Partners Pte plans to start this month with $25 million, Edwards said in an interview in Singapore. The equity-focused fund has five staff and will invest about half its money in Japan, with the remainder split between Hong Kong and the rest of Asia, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-05-02\/ex-rbc-trader-damian-edwards-starts-asia-event-driven-hedge-fund\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Damian Edwards, a former managing director at Royal Bank of Canada, is starting an Asian event-driven hedge fund to take advantage of a surge in mergers and acquisitions in the region. Metrica Partners Pte plans to start this month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57828,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827\/revisions\/57828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}