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Goldman Sachs Reportedly Shuts Two Asia-Pacific Hedge Funds

Asia-focused hedge funds have struggled to make headway so far this year.
Goldman Sachs
is reportedly shutting two Asia-Pacific focused hedge funds with
a total of $1.4 billion in assets because of weak performance,
highlighting how funds have struggled to make headway in the
region.
The closure will also involve the departure of the funds’
managers: Hong Kong-based Ryan Thall and Hideki Kinuhata in
Tokyo, the Financial Times (of London) has reported,
citing unnamed sources. The newspaper said the US firm declined
to comment.
The funds made money by focusing on movements in equities, the
report said.
The report said that the Oryza Capital fund, which manages less
than $500 million, concentrates on Asian equities and returned
only 0.6 per cent this year. The Global Long-Short Partners fund
is split into two segments comprising publicly traded securities
and private equity. The public part of this fund is to be closed,
the newspaper said, adding that the closures were first reported
by Bloomberg.
Returns across the hedge fund universe have been lacklustre since
the start of this year. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index,
produced by Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, is up just 0.81
per cent in the year to the end of June. The HFRI Asia With Japan
Index fell by 2.79 per cent over that period.
This publication has contacted Goldman Sachs for comment and may
update in due course.