October 2009

Rare launch of a CIS fixed-income hedge fund

Two former JPMorgan bankers have launched a hedge fund that invests in fixed-income instruments in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.


Sergey Grechishkin and Andrei Taskin, who both worked at the US bank earlier this decade, are raising money for the Alcantara Russia and CIS Fixed Income Opportunities Fund.

The fund, which is regulated by the UK’s Financial Services Authority, is the first product launched by Alcantara Asset Management, the firm that the two partners founded last year.

Although there are several hedge funds investing in emerging Europe and global emerging markets Alcantara is rare in being exclusively focused on fixed-income instruments issued by the three biggest members of the CIS....


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