Two former Rabobank traders, Chin Pu Ma and Chien Wang have just launched an Asia-focused opportunistic equity l/s hedge fund on PARA_BREAK_SENTINEL_9f8e7d6c

Two former Rabobank traders, Chin Pu Ma and Chien Wang have just launched an Asia-focused opportunistic equity l/s hedge fund on the basis that the next century will belong to Asia reported FINalternatives this week. The Netherlands-based fund, which launched 1 October, is aiming to raise EUR250million. It uses both a top-down and bottom-up approach to identifying stocks, which CIO Ma employed when running proprietary money for a number of Dutch banks, including Rabobank. The fund is targeting annualised absolute returns of between 15 and 30 per cent. Ma’s career has seen him work for Rabobank International, Commerzbank, Fortis Bank and Rabo Securities where he became co-head of global arbitrage in 2003. COO Wang has worked at Robeco Asset Management, DresdnerVPV and Rabobank International where he was a director in the firm’s securitization department between 2009 and 2011.