April 28, 2006
Hedge Fund Specializing in China Based in … Kansas
Jayhawk China Fund (started in 1996)
Jayhawk China Fund (Cayman), Ltd. This Cayman Island’s Limited Liability Company focuses on investments in China. The manager expects to invest the majority of the Fund’s capital in the shares of China and Hong Kong issues but may from time to time invest in other Southeast Asian markets including closed-end funds. These include but are not limited to equities listed on the Shenzhen & Shanghai stock exchanges, Hong Kong Listed “H” shares and “Red Chips,” and other China related Hong Kong listed stocks.
Kent McCarthy has an impressive resume, but I don’t see why he’s interested in China specifically. Maybe he had a lot of Chinese-American private clients at GS in San Francisco?
Cat: | Time: 3:28 pm (utc+8)
April 29th, 2006 at 4:49 am
Just because China has been quite visible in the media for the past fews years doesn’t mean these rednecks can start making money in China. Who will be their client base? wheat farmers?
April 29th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
Most successful farmers are great traders. They deal in commodities and price every day - and quite a few trade multiple markets.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:03 pm
Looks like Jayhawk does cater for Chinese readers, otherwise why will they put some Chinese language on the front page ?
I wonder how they invest in Shanghai/Shenzhen stock exchange, as QFII (Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor) ?
May 6th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Andrew: I think they must buy Mainland shares through one of the many firms (UBS, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.) that have a QFII allocation.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:03 am
Its performance is quite outstanding among all the pure China hedge funds. The best one is based in Shanghai. Obviously, all China hedge funds are now perfroming very well due to the fact that China is hot. Some China-based RMB mutual funds are also promising in terms of performance. The representative is GF Fund Management. If index futures to be launched within these months, they may invest in local market as a hedge fund style.
May 12th, 2006 at 7:31 am
China Hedge: Can you explain how a foreign fund like Jayhawk gets access to the Mainland share market?
May 12th, 2006 at 9:38 am
China Hedge: Just curious, is there a Mainland index fund that can be purchased by locals ?
May 12th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Andrew: I can answer that… there are a couple, but the best known is China Asset Management’s China 50 ETF (which State Street helped construct).
May 12th, 2006 at 11:34 am
China 50 ETF is investing in Shanghai Stock Exchange. Shanghai 180 is also investing in SSE and is managed by Hua an Fund Management. It is supposed to be the first fund management company to launch QDII product. Shenzhen 100 ETF is managed by E-Fund Management (got 5 stars for one of equities products according to Morningstar) and is investing in Shenzhen Stock Exchange…Also other name includes LOF….
A number of local privated-raised funds are specialising on trading arbitrage between ETFs and a basket of its constitutent stocks. For the first time of launch, the arbitrage income is quite huge. But many players are coming in. The profit is quite limited currently. Thus, they are the simple form of hedge fund players in local market.
There is also a A share ETF (Xinhua FTSE A 50)that can be purchased by foreigners as it is listed in HKSE . The premium was huge when the time China concept is very hot and mainland China has a long holiday. Many hedge funds are investing 2828.HK aggressively as they haven’t got any QFII quota.
One thing foreign funds that get involved in local markets is to purchase QFII quota from QFII (huge commission). The other one is to buy a block lot (at least 10% and lock-up 3 years) on a A-share listed company (no QFII quota required)by private agreement or subscribing new shares. But it needs approval from relevant authorities including Commerce Dept, CSRC, etc.
May 12th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
China Hedge: Your last paragraph interests me. Do you know what the commission is exactly to buy Mainland shares through, say UBS, taking advantage of their QFII quota?
May 13th, 2006 at 1:13 am
quite difficult to show the rate at a public manner. I am wondering who writes the chinese word, “Mao Xian” at the top right hand of your site. It is very wonderful.
May 13th, 2006 at 7:37 am
CH: John at Sinosplice.com was kind enough to use the Chinese version of Photoshop (with all its fonts) to produce those characters for me.
January 12th, 2007 at 5:01 am
“Holders of the quotas typically charge 2 percent when they lend shares to brokerage clients, compared with a fee of less than 0.5 percent in Hong Kong for buying and selling shares.” Link
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:32 am
Does anyone have an idea how to set up a long/short in A shares vs H shares?