20Mar

In China, Former IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Announces Effort To Raise $2B

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fund chief, plans to raise $2 billion for a new macro hedge fund.


Strauss-Kahn: Importance of China
Strauss-Kahn’s firm, LSK & Partners, which includes his daughter and economist Vanessa Strauss-Kahn, was on a promotional trip in China when they made the strategic announcement.

The importance of China, with over 650,000 millionaires and a rapidly emerging institutional appetite for alternative investments, is becoming a region that is increasingly more difficult for hedge funds to ignore.  The . . .

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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