Yvonne Chan

A round-up of key themes from the three-day hedge fund conference, as well as a few off-key incidents.

In contrast to their Western peers, Asian managers are finding the Chinese market good for returns, while some domestic investors in current regional darling Japan are selling stocks.

Salt Asia kicks off with hedge funds' talks centred on tapering, typhoons and Justin Bieber.

The closure of the strategy follows GLG’s shift to reorganise its emerging market portfolio management activities.

Lehman's hedge fund clients have only started to regain assets that have been frozen for nearly five years, with the bank's crash precipitating changes in custody arrangements.

The private equity giant aims to extend its private lending activities and is also eyeing property investments as it seeks opportunities for its $6 billion Asia-focused fund.

Temasek's move to appoint Wu Yibing will help further Singapore sovereign’s push into hi-tech and energy investments on the mainland.

Some 40% of Asian institutions plan to invest in hedge funds, but global and large-sized strategies are most likely to see the biggest inflows, a Preqin survey indicates.

Managers across the board pare risk as market uncertainty takes hold, leading to narrow losses among Asia ex-Japan hedge funds.

Small and start-up Asian hedge funds are struggling to stay in the game, but industry executives say there are more opportunities for them to gain a foothold and raise capital.

The SkyBridge Alternatives Conference returns to Singapore this month, with a wider range of global topics to be covered at the hedge fund capital introductions event.

Hedge funds reversed course from June's negative returns, with Asia ex-Japan managers leading the way last month, but they are still overshadowed by Japan fund gains for 2013.