Veritas and Henderson lead a cast of regional and global players who win AsiaHedge Awards

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2 AsiaHedge Awards 2009 Venue: JW Marriott Hotel Location: Hong Kong Date: Thursday, 22 October 2009 The AsiaHedge Awards celebrated the top performing hedge funds in Asia-Pacific in Now in its seventh year, the awards bring together both international and Asian managers and investors to acknowledge the achievements of the best in the industry. Veritas and Henderson lead a cast of regional and global players who win AsiaHedge Awards The Real Return Asian Fund, managed by Ezra Sun of Veritas Asset Management, took the plaudits of more than 200 leading figures in the Asia-Pacific hedge fund industry as he collected the AsiaHedge Fund of the Year Award for 2009 at the AsiaHedge Awards on 22 October. The much-coveted Management Firm of the Year award was won for 2009 by Henderson Global Investors, which had no less than four of its Asia-focused funds nominated in the various categories. The strong turnout and upbeat mood at the dinner, which was being held for the eighth time, also demonstrated after two years of extraordinary turmoil in the global markets that the hedge fund industry in the Asia-Pacific region has very much survived, and indeed appears well positioned to thrive again after a year when many funds again delivered strong returns. In an Asia-Pacific industry that is spread across various markets and featuring players based in a number of different locations, the awards were won by a mixture of big international firms and regionally-based players. Among the major international firms that took awards, in addition to Henderson there was also Brevan Howard, which won the International award again for its Asia macro fund; and also Marshall Wace, which won the award for best Asia including Japan strategy for Asia Diversified TOPS fund. HSBC won the award for best Single Country fund for its India hedge fund strategy managed by Sanjiv Duggal. Regional boutiques that won included HT Capital for its Amoeba small cap strategy, and Riley Paterson for Asia ex-japan. A best China fund category was awarded for the first time this year, reflecting the rapid growth of dedicated China-focused hedge funds, with the inaugural winner being LBN China+ Opportunity. The long-established best Japan fund category was won by Hadoh, while another Japan-focused strategy Prowess of Japan took this year's Arbitrage & Market Neutral award.

3 After being nominated on several previous occasions, the Fixed Income award was taken this time by Tribridge. Evenstar and Phalanx, two new contenders at the awards, took the Event Driven and Multi-strategy categories. And the New Fund of the Year award went to Joe Chan's new Galaxy China Deep Value fund. The full list of this year's final nominees and winners was as follows: Asia ex-japan K2 Asian Absolute Return Platinum Asia Riley Paterson Sofaer Capital Asian Hedge Fund **WINNER: Riley Paterson** Asia inc Japan Greater Asian Hedge Fund JF Asia Absolute Return Marshall Wace Asia Diversified TOPS Fund Real Return Asian Fund **WINNER: Marshall Wace Asia Diversified TOPS Fund** Japan Akamatsu Asuka Japanese Equity Hadoh Henderson Japan Absolute Return Henderson Japan Select Absolute Return PK Japan **WINNER: Hadoh** China Ajia-Lighthorse China Growth Strategy Dragon Billion China Golden China LBN China+ Opportunity Pinpoint China Pure Heart China Growth Triskele China **WINNER: LBN China+ Opportunity ** Single Country Agora Absolute Return BGI Australia Absolute Equity HSBC India Alpha K2 Australian Absolute Return PXP Vietnam **WINNER: HSBC India Alpha**

4 Small & Mid-Cap Boyer Allan Pacific Opportunities Frontier Asia HT Asian Alpha Amoeba Tiedemann Japan QP Small Cap Portfolio Yaraka **WINNER: HT Asian Alpha Amoeba** Event Driven Evenstar Sub Fund I HDH Master Fund Owl Creek Asia UG Hidden Dragon Special Opportunity **WINNER: Evenstar Sub Fund I** Arbitrage & Market Neutral Artradis Barracuda CITIC Securities Alpha Leaders DB Equilibria Japan Northwest China Opportunities Fund Prowess of Japan Richland Asia Absolute Return Titan Asia Volatility **WINNER: Prowess of Japan** International BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha Fund Blue Sky World Brevan Howard Asia PMA Harvester Platinum International **WINNER: Brevan Howard Asia ** Fixed Income, High Yield and Distressed ADM Galleus Alphadyne Investment Strategies - Asia Rates Trading Tribridge QBridge **WINNER: Tribridge** Multi-Strategy Asuka Opportunity Henderson Asia Pacific Equity Multi-Strategy LIM Asia Multi-Strategy Northwest Fund Phalanx Japan Austral-Asia Multi-Strategy Pinpoint Asia Strategies Rohatyn Group Asia Opportunity Segantii Asia-Pacific Multi-Strategy **WINNER: Phalanx Japan Austral-Asia Multi-Strategy**

5 New Fund of the Year Artradis Asian Convertible Bond Fund Galaxy China Deep Value Fund Henderson Asia Select Pure Heart Natural Selection Fund Strategic China Panda Fund Wisdom of Japan Fund **WINNER: Galaxy China Deep Value Fund** Management Firm of the Year Asuka Henderson K2 Martin Currie Platinum **WINNER: Henderson** Fund of the Year Bevan Howard Asia HDH Master Fund Prowess of Japan Real Return Asian Fund Riley Paterson Tribridge **WINNER: Real Return Asian Fund**