HSBC Halbis Partners, the alternative investment arm of HSBC, will launch an equity longshort technology fund on 1 September biased toward Asian companies' interplay with US counterparts. This is the sixth fund launched by Halbis.
Existing tech funds may call themselves global but they are US-centric, says Charles Robinson, London-based director at the firm. The Halbis product is biased toward European and Asian companies instead, and will partly draw from HSBC's China and India-based research capabilities.
But the heart of the team are two tech veterans, Connor O'Mara, a former fund manager at Dresdner RCM a unit of Allianz Global Investors and Nick...
