Halbis launches tech hedge fund

HSBC Halbis Partners, the alternative investment arm of HSBC, will launch an equity long/short 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…