{"id":7847,"date":"2008-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ex-morgan-stanley-japan-experts-launch-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/ex-morgan-stanley-japan-experts-launch-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Morgan Stanley Japan experts launch hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Investor &#8211; The Shaka Japan fund has been launched in New York by hedge fund manager Shaka Capital Management. It is a new start-up, launched in January of this year with partners&rsquo; capital, and has an estimated capacity of $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Arif Imam is Shaka&rsquo;s business manager and is a former managing director at Morgan Stanley, responsible for global distribution of Japanese equities. <\/p>\n<p>The portfolio manager is Alexandre de Bethmann who formerly worked at Federated Global and TIAA-CREF. <\/p>\n<p>Shaka&rsquo;s trader is Douglas Butcher, who was also a managing director at Morgan Stanley where he handled client trading for Japanese equities.<\/p>\n<p>Target return is 12-15% per year on a Sharpe Ratio of 1.2 to 1.5. It is a Japan-only long\/short equity fund concentrating on the top 250 stocks in that market. The focus on large-cap stocks is in part because of the very liquid state of the short borrow that lends to running a truly efficient hedged fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinvestor.net\/article.aspx?CIaNID=77687\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Investor &#8211; The Shaka Japan fund has been launched in New York by hedge fund manager Shaka Capital Management. It is a new start-up, launched in January of this year with partners&rsquo; capital, and has an estimated capacity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[643,646,259,654,649,658,653,647,657,645,659,648,652,644,656,170,655,650,651],"class_list":["post-7847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-syndicated","tag-10-million","tag-arthur-sulzberger","tag-banque-syz","tag-bethmann","tag-bridget","tag-business-manager","tag-cap-stocks","tag-caxton","tag-global-distribution","tag-gross-exposure","tag-imam","tag-industry-group","tag-japanese-equities","tag-john-mcallister","tag-liquid-state","tag-money-managers","tag-shaka","tag-synergies","tag-tiaa-cref"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847","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=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}