{"id":9750,"date":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ex-citadel-manager-returns-18-with-atom-japan-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/ex-citadel-manager-returns-18-with-atom-japan-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Citadel Manager Returns 18% With Atom Japan Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211;&nbsp;Atsuko Tsuchiya, the Japanese hedge- fund adviser who left Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. to found her own firm, led Atom Japan Equity Fund to an 18 percent return in 2008, beating rivals who suffered the worst year on record. <\/p>\n<p>Tsuchiya, 36, achieved the gains in the fund&rsquo;s first full year of trading, withstanding market losses and investor withdrawals that ravaged the $1.5 trillion hedge-fund industry, Bloomberg data shows. The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index fell a record 12 percent in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>One of the nation&rsquo;s few female hedge-fund advisers, Tsuchiya combined so-called event-driven and equity long-short strategies in the Japan-focused, 3 billion yen ($33 million) fund. Bets on companies that launched buyouts or bought affiliates to combat Japan&rsquo;s first recession in seven years helped Atom dodge a 33 percent slide in assets at Japan-focused hedge funds last year. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=aYw26hgTAqdA\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211;&nbsp;Atsuko Tsuchiya, the Japanese hedge- fund adviser who left Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. to found her own firm, led Atom Japan Equity Fund to an 18 percent return in 2008, beating rivals who suffered the worst year on record. [&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":[4339,2410,4439,6612,6611,82,2858,6613,1806,73,6610,3060,418,536,6131,5067,236,4292,899],"class_list":["post-9750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-adviser","tag-amp","tag-assets","tag-atom","tag-atsuko","tag-bets","tag-buyouts","tag-dodge","tag-equity-fund","tag-hedge-fund-index","tag-japan-equity","tag-market-losses","tag-merrill-lynch","tag-recession","tag-rivals","tag-seven-years","tag-trillion","tag-withdrawals","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750","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=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}