Monsoon Capital Lists on AlphaMetrix

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AlphaMetrix, the leading secure online marketplace for private investments, today announced that Monsoon Capital has listed its Monsoon Asia-Pacific Systematic Fund as a Transparent Fund.

“We are excited to list our Asia CTA fund on AlphaMetrix”

The Monsoon Asia-Pacific Systematic Fund is now visible to the AlphaMetrix network. It will retain its existing structure and service providers while offering investors in-depth risk monitoring, state-of-the-art reporting, customized transparency and a thorough background investigation via AlphaMetrix.

“We are excited to list our Asia CTA fund on AlphaMetrix,” said Gautam Prakash, founder of Monsoon Capital. “We have long been impressed with AlphaMetrix and believe that listing our systematic trading managed futures fund on the Marketplace is an important step to increasing the transparency and risk reporting we can offer to our investors. We think AlphaMetrix will help shed a bright light within the industry and enable investors to better understand what they are buying in terms of alpha, risk-adjusted returns and portfolio diversification.”

“We share Monsoon Capital’s focus on transparency, which makes the firm an excellent partner for AlphaMetrix,” said Mikus Kins, Chief Product and Business Development Officer at AlphaMetrix. “We are thrilled to deliver all of the benefits of AlphaMetrix to Monsoon Asia-Pacific Systemic Fund’s investors, including cutting-edge fund performance tracking tools and value-added risk and research reports.”

About Monsoon Capital

Founded in 2004, Monsoon Capital is an alternative asset manager specializing in emerging markets, primarily in Asia and India. The firm currently manages over $325 million across four investment strategies on behalf of numerous institutional investors, fund of funds, family offices and high net worth individuals. The founder is the firm’s largest investor.

The firm’s flagship fund, Monsoon Asia-Pacific Systematic Fund, LP (MAPS LP), is a pan-Asia systematic managed futures strategy implemented across 10 Asia-Pacific equity market indices. MAPS targets absolute returns while maximizing the MAR ratio (annualized return/max drawdown). MAPS screens for uncorrelated returns at the system level. MAPS seeks to perform well in normal and extreme market conditions, providing tail risk insurance and portfolio diversification benefits. The program invests in liquid equity index futures across the following Asia-Pacific markets: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Japan, Australia and Singapore.

About AlphaMetrix

AlphaMetrix is the world’s leading secure online marketplace for researching, tracking and analyzing information about hedge fund managers, CTAs and private equity funds. The Marketplace provides extensive due diligence, real-time transparency and 24-hour risk monitoring. AlphaMetrix connects more than 100,000 industry participants online and has a growing membership of 50,000 institutional and high net worth investors.

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* Alternative investment products, including hedge funds and managed futures, involve a high degree of risk. Alternative investment products can be volatile. An investor could lose all or a substantial amount of his or her investment. Alternative investment products often execute a substantial portion of their trades on non-U.S. exchanges. Investing in non-U.S. markets may entail risks that differ from those associated with investments in U.S. markets.