{"id":6500,"date":"2007-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"gerken-capital-associates-launches-gca-latam-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2007\/gerken-capital-associates-launches-gca-latam-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Gerken Capital Associates launches GCA Latam Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong><em><strong>HedgeWeek- Gerken Capital Associates, a San Francisco-based alternative asset manager that manages or advises on USD1.4bn in assets, has announced the launch of the GCA Latam  <a class=\"keyword_ad\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Hedge Fund<\/a>, with BBVA Bancomer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Madrid-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria as adviser to the fund  manager.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  &#8216;We believe the Latin America region <a class=\"keyword_ad\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">offer<\/a>s a very attractive near- and long-term investment outlook for investors,&#8217; says Lou Gerken, chairman  of Gerken Capital Associates.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8216;Our fund is <a class=\"keyword_ad\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">position<\/a>ed to be the institutional-grade management team of choice for investors. With the region&#8217;s largest on-the-ground  investment team, we have the requisite infrastructure to achieve the fund&#8217;s investment objectives.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>  The fund will manage assets on a risk-adjusted basis, across all asset classes, using a range of investment strategies, with assets invested throughout Latin America but with a primary focus on  Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.<\/p>\n<p>  Founded in 1989, Gerken Capital Associates is an <a class=\"keyword_ad\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">emerging markets<\/a> specialist that currently manages the GCA Greater China Hedge Fund, with hedge  funds investing in India, Russia, the Middle East and the so-<a class=\"keyword_ad\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">call<\/a>ed Bric countries scheduled to follow this year and in 2008. GCA&#8217;s funds are  structured as segregated share classes of BVI-domiciled GCA Funds.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=  \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/3-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.hedgeweek.com\/articles\/detail.jsp%3Fcontent_id%3D166949&amp;cid=1120316937&amp;ei=yifdRvPrIoKE0AHA_PSkCA\">Read  Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeWeek- Gerken Capital Associates, a San Francisco-based alternative asset manager that manages or advises on USD1.4bn in assets, has announced the launch of the GCA Latam Hedge Fund, with BBVA Bancomer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Madrid-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","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=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}