Asian hedge funds become a more viable business
While some specialists, and a few global names, have had exposure to Asian hedge funds for 10 years or more, in 2003 global allocators began to review the universe of hedge fund managers in Asia more seriously.

Developing a long-term presence in Asia
With its core PerTrac Analytical Platform product, PerTrac Financial Solutions is by far the largest player in the market in the market for providing asset allocation and investment analysis software to the alternative investment industry, with customers in 46 countries around the world and nearly 100 clients in Asia. After Insight Venture Partners and Salmon River Partners invested in PerTrac in July 2005, we examined what we needed to do to grow the business.

Emerging managers look to outsourcing
The hedge fund industry in Asia today resembles that in Europe a couple of years ago. For example, the average size of a new hedge fund launch is still relatively small at less than USD100m, although this represents an increase over the past couple of years.

Start-ups help Singapore gain in rivalry with Hong Kong
Hong Kong may remain the main Asian centre for hedge funds outside Japan, but its perennial rival Singapore is steadily gaining ground, thanks in part to a relaxed regulatory regime for managers that belies the city-state's reputation for excessive state control and indeed has sparked a certain degree of concern among investors worried about lack of supervision.

Opportunity knocks for hedge fund services
As fast as hedge funds spring up to capitalise on the investment opportunities available in Asia's dynamic and fast-growing markets, they are being shadowed by providers of services to the industry that see in the region a potential for growth that is not necessarily available in the more mature markets of Europe and North America.

Singapore completes a global footprint
The decision by Custom House Administration to establish a presence in Singapore is far from a spur-of-the moment action but part of an expansion plan we have been refining for several years. Our game plan always envisaged first opening an office in Chicago because we saw the potential in the North American  market, particularly as a large number of US funds are still self-administered

Asian market shows its maturity
A common view of Asia's hedge fund industry is that it lags a few years behind its counterparts in the US and Europe. However, there is plenty of evidence that the sector is maturing rapidly and that Asian hedge fund managers

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