Prop traders set up Asia macro fund

Pagoda Advisors, a new Singapore based fund manager, will soon launch the Pagoda Macro Fund.

Jonathan Wharton

July 21, 2003

Two investment bank proprietary desk traders, Ian Emmett and Julian Reis, have set up their own firm, Pagoda Advisors, in Singapore and will soon launch their first fund, the Pagoda Macro Fund. The new fund will have an Asian focus and will invest in relative value strategies, local currency markets and local currency fixed income.

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