{"id":7408,"date":"2008-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-manager-mukai-picks-analysts-not-stocks-for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/hedge-fund-manager-mukai-picks-analysts-not-stocks-for-japan.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Manager Mukai Picks Analysts, Not Stocks for Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Tadashi Mukai outperformed all his hedge fund rivals in Japan last year by researching analysts, rather than companies. <\/p>\n<p>Mukai&#8217;s $21 million UMJ Neutro Fund climbed 11 percent, the biggest return among 13 market-neutral funds, those that don&#8217;t take directional bets on stock benchmarks, according to data provider AsiaHedge. It gained 2.3 percent in the first two months of this year as the Topix index slumped 10 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Fund adviser United Managers Japan Inc. plans to showcase that success to help boost assets to $500 million within a year even as global shares head for their largest first-quarter decline since 2001. Investors withdrew more than $7.7 billion from Japan-focused hedge funds last year as U.S. subprime mortgage defaults sapped appetite for risk. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601101%26sid%3DahkuwAA47UK4%26refer%3Djapan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- Tadashi Mukai outperformed all his hedge fund rivals in Japan last year by researching analysts, rather than companies. Mukai&#8217;s $21 million UMJ Neutro Fund climbed 11 percent, the biggest return among 13 market-neutral funds, those that don&#8217;t take directional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}