{"id":7791,"date":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"blackstone-launches-asia-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2008\/blackstone-launches-asia-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Launches Asia Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (Hedge Co.Net)- The Blackstone Group announced that Aaron Nieman will be launching Blackstone Altius Advisors, a new event-driven strategy focusing on opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. A global, highly experienced investment team will be headquartered in Hong Kong, with additional professionals based in Tokyo, Mumbai, and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Nieman joined Blackstone from S.A.C. Capital Management, where he was a Managing Director in the Canvas Capital Management division.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As Blackstone continues to aggressively seek opportunities within Asia, Aaron and his team will provide additional investment capability that will bolster our presence in the region.&quot; said Antony Leung, Chairman of Blackstone Greater China.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Blackstone has a superior global alternative investment platform. It also employs some of the best professionals in the industry. The synergies that exist within Blackstone&#8217;s various businesses will provide us with a significant advantage investing in the Asia Pacific markets,&quot; said Aaron Nieman, Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Altius Advisors.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Blackstone Altius Advisors, Blackstone&#8217;s other&nbsp;hedge funds&nbsp;in Asia include its corporate private equity fund (Blackstone Capital Partners), its real estate opportunity fund (Blackstone Real Estate Partners), its fund of hedge funds business and two closed-end mutual funds (The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund).<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<\/p>\n<p>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/news\/04\/news\/01\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeconetworks.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeconetworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121192457563024139.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_money_and_investing\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (Hedge Co.Net)- The Blackstone Group announced that Aaron Nieman will be launching Blackstone Altius Advisors, a new event-driven strategy focusing on opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. A global, highly experienced investment team will be headquartered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[429,100,434,428,110,432,95,433,431,286,430],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","tag-asset-management-professionals","tag-boston","tag-brep","tag-current-value","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-katie-hall","tag-merrill","tag-options-and-futures","tag-specialist-sectors","tag-steve-moyer","tag-venture-capital-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","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=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}