LIM Advisors
LIM Advisors | Hedge Fund Notes
Below please find the Hedge Fund Tracker profile for LIM Advisors:LIM Advisors Limited is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. It manages long-only funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of Asia. It also invests in arbitrage, credit related strategies, equity related strategies, real estate securities, commodities, commodity related securities, and special situations to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as Long Investment Management Limited. LIM Advisors was founded in 1995 and is based in Central, Hong Kong
Resource #1: LIM Advisors Limited, the Asian-based multi-strategy investment group with approximately US$1.5 billion in assets under management, has selected Fidessa LatentZero’s front office suite, Capstone™, to provide support to front office analytics, order management, trading and compliance. The solution will cover equities, listed and OTC derivatives, fixed income and FX.
More than twenty users in LIM Advisors’ offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing and Connecticut, will eventually use Capstone. LIM Advisors will also use the Fidessa LatentZero Trading Network (LTN) to connect with brokers, ECNs and other alternative trading systems globally.
George W. Long, Founder and Chief Investment Officer for LIM Advisors said: “The selection of Fidessa LatentZero’s Capstone is an important strategic decision for us. This new partnership will improve our processes, controls, and information management to deliver an industry-leading architecture. We conducted a thorough search of solutions in the region and found that Capstone provides a robust single platform to support our growing multi-strategy business. We are also pleased with Fidessa LatentZero’s commitment to provide first-rate support to our Hong Kong headquarters and LIM offices around the world.” source
Resource #2: Hong Kong: Hedge fund manager LIM Advisors said Wednesday, 21 November, it expects the launch of its new Asia special situations fund to raise $500 million, reflecting strong global demand for alternative investments in the high-growth region.
Launching at a time when debt and equity markets have seen a spike in risk aversion, the fund will invest in less-liquid credit oriented instruments and transactions in sectors including infrastructure, utility and agriculture, LIM executive directors Dean Van Drasek and Steven Petersohn told Reuters. source
Resource #3: Lim Advisors plans to launch an Asia property fund initially worth up to $200 million and probably listed on a European exchange, according to veteran Hong Kong property analyst Peter Churchouse, who will run it.
Speaking at the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Churchouse said the fund was mostly aimed at European family offices and private banks keen to invest in residential development and offices in Asia's thriving property markets.
Unlike during the Asian economic boom of the mid-1990s, developers have been holding back because they were badly burnt by the 1997-98 economic crisis, Churchouse said. source
Resource #4: LIM Advisors Limited is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. It manages long-only funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of Asia. It also invests in arbitrage, credit related strategies, equity related strategies, real estate securities, commodities, commodity related securities, and special situations to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as Long Investment Management Limited. LIM Advisors was founded in 1995 and is based in Central, Hong Kong. source
Resource #5: Mr. George W. Long is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at LIM Advisors Limited. He founded the firm in 1995 and has extensive commercial, banking, investment, and financial 20 years of experience in the banking and managing global investment funds in Asia. Mr. Long is also the Chief Investment Officer at LIM Group, Hong Kong (offices in Beijing, Mauritius, Stamford and Tokyo). He formed and managed the Asian operations of what is now Barclays Global Investors (previously called BZW Asset Management). Previously, Mr. Long was the Chief Investment Officer at Gartmore Asia and Head the Korean office at Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities. He was the President and Founder at the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts. Mr. Long was a Director of Consolidated Broken Hill Ltd. since on November 13, 2003. He was a Director of JP Morgan Flemning Japan Smaller Companies Investment Trust and a Director of Alternative Investment Management Association. Mr. Long received the Thomas L. Hansberger Leadership in Global Investing Award for his contributions to the practice of global investment management. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr. Long completed his B.A. in Korea Studies in 1977, M.A. in East Asia Studies in 1979, and M.B.A. in 1981 at the University of Washington. source
Resource #6: Mr. Dean Van Drasek is an Executive Director at LIM Advisors Limited. He co-manages the high yield and special situation investment portfolios for a number of LIM’s funds. Before embarking on a career in fund management, Mr. Van Drasek spent 12 years in investment banking in Asia, serving as the Co-Head of Asia at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and a Managing Director at Bank of America. In the latter position, he also headed the Equity capital markets division and country funds division for a number of years. Mr. Van Drasek was a Foreign Legal Counsel at the firm of Shin & Kim, Indonesia and Singapore. He is a Director of Mekong Capital. Previously, Mr. Van Drasek was a Director of Credit Agricole Indosuez. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and has an undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University and as part of his undergraduate studies program attended Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku, in Japan. source
Resource #7: Lim Advisors plans to launch an Asia property fund initially worth up to $200 million and probably listed on a European exchange, according to veteran Hong Kong property analyst Peter Churchouse, who will run it.
Speaking at the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Churchouse said the fund was mostly aimed at European family offices and private banks keen to invest in residential development and offices in Asia's thriving property markets.
Unlike during the Asian economic boom of the mid-1990s, developers have been holding back because they were badly burnt by the 1997-98 economic crisis, Churchouse said. source
Resource #8: Hedge fund manager LIM Advisors is looking to raise as much as $500 million for the launch of an Asian special situations high-yield fund that will tap growing opportunities in less-liquid securities, the firm's chairman said.
The new fund will build on trading strategies developed in the firm's flagship $460 million LIM Asia Arbitrage pan-Asian multistrategy fund, said George Long, who is also the founder and chief investment officer of Hong Kong-based LIM.
"We've always done special situations in high yield, and we made extremely good money out of that over the last eight years," he said in a telephone interview ahead of the Reuters Hedge Funds and Private Equity Summit in Hong Kong. Source
Resource #9: LIM Advisors Limited has selected Fidessa LatentZero’s front office suite, Capstone™, to provide support to front office analytics, order management, trading and compliance. The solution will cover equities, listed and OTC derivatives, fixed income and FX.
George W. Long, Founder and Chief Investment Officer for LIM Advisors said: “The selection of Fidessa LatentZero’s Capstone is an important strategic decision for us. This new partnership will improve our processes, controls, and information management to deliver an industry-leading architecture. We conducted a thorough search of solutions in the region and found that Capstone provides a robust single platform to support our growing multi-strategy business. We are also pleased with Fidessa LatentZero’s commitment to provide first-rate support to our Hong Kong headquarters and LIM offices around the world.” source
Resource #3: Lim Advisors plans to launch an Asia property fund initially worth up to $200 million and probably listed on a European exchange, according to veteran Hong Kong property analyst Peter Churchouse, who will run it.
Speaking at the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Churchouse said the fund was mostly aimed at European family offices and private banks keen to invest in residential development and offices in Asia's thriving property markets.
Unlike during the Asian economic boom of the mid-1990s, developers have been holding back because they were badly burnt by the 1997-98 economic crisis, Churchouse said. source
Resource #4: LIM Advisors Limited is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. It manages long-only funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of Asia. It also invests in arbitrage, credit related strategies, equity related strategies, real estate securities, commodities, commodity related securities, and special situations to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as Long Investment Management Limited. LIM Advisors was founded in 1995 and is based in Central, Hong Kong. source
Resource #5: Mr. George W. Long is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at LIM Advisors Limited. He founded the firm in 1995 and has extensive commercial, banking, investment, and financial 20 years of experience in the banking and managing global investment funds in Asia. Mr. Long is also the Chief Investment Officer at LIM Group, Hong Kong (offices in Beijing, Mauritius, Stamford and Tokyo). He formed and managed the Asian operations of what is now Barclays Global Investors (previously called BZW Asset Management). Previously, Mr. Long was the Chief Investment Officer at Gartmore Asia and Head the Korean office at Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities. He was the President and Founder at the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts. Mr. Long was a Director of Consolidated Broken Hill Ltd. since on November 13, 2003. He was a Director of JP Morgan Flemning Japan Smaller Companies Investment Trust and a Director of Alternative Investment Management Association. Mr. Long received the Thomas L. Hansberger Leadership in Global Investing Award for his contributions to the practice of global investment management. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr. Long completed his B.A. in Korea Studies in 1977, M.A. in East Asia Studies in 1979, and M.B.A. in 1981 at the University of Washington. source
Resource #6: Mr. Dean Van Drasek is an Executive Director at LIM Advisors Limited. He co-manages the high yield and special situation investment portfolios for a number of LIM’s funds. Before embarking on a career in fund management, Mr. Van Drasek spent 12 years in investment banking in Asia, serving as the Co-Head of Asia at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and a Managing Director at Bank of America. In the latter position, he also headed the Equity capital markets division and country funds division for a number of years. Mr. Van Drasek was a Foreign Legal Counsel at the firm of Shin & Kim, Indonesia and Singapore. He is a Director of Mekong Capital. Previously, Mr. Van Drasek was a Director of Credit Agricole Indosuez. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and has an undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University and as part of his undergraduate studies program attended Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku, in Japan. source
Resource #7: Lim Advisors plans to launch an Asia property fund initially worth up to $200 million and probably listed on a European exchange, according to veteran Hong Kong property analyst Peter Churchouse, who will run it.
Speaking at the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Churchouse said the fund was mostly aimed at European family offices and private banks keen to invest in residential development and offices in Asia's thriving property markets.
Unlike during the Asian economic boom of the mid-1990s, developers have been holding back because they were badly burnt by the 1997-98 economic crisis, Churchouse said. source
Resource #8: Hedge fund manager LIM Advisors is looking to raise as much as $500 million for the launch of an Asian special situations high-yield fund that will tap growing opportunities in less-liquid securities, the firm's chairman said.
The new fund will build on trading strategies developed in the firm's flagship $460 million LIM Asia Arbitrage pan-Asian multistrategy fund, said George Long, who is also the founder and chief investment officer of Hong Kong-based LIM.
"We've always done special situations in high yield, and we made extremely good money out of that over the last eight years," he said in a telephone interview ahead of the Reuters Hedge Funds and Private Equity Summit in Hong Kong. Source
Resource #9: LIM Advisors Limited has selected Fidessa LatentZero’s front office suite, Capstone™, to provide support to front office analytics, order management, trading and compliance. The solution will cover equities, listed and OTC derivatives, fixed income and FX.
George W. Long, Founder and Chief Investment Officer for LIM Advisors said: “The selection of Fidessa LatentZero’s Capstone is an important strategic decision for us. This new partnership will improve our processes, controls, and information management to deliver an industry-leading architecture. We conducted a thorough search of solutions in the region and found that Capstone provides a robust single platform to support our growing multi-strategy business. We are also pleased with Fidessa LatentZero’s commitment to provide first-rate support to our Hong Kong headquarters and LIM offices around the world.” source
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