Kurt Baker rides again

Kurt Baker has revealed his plans to build an asset management platform based in Hong Kong. Until late 2008 he was the head of Asian prime broking for Morgan Stanley. The venture, as yet unnamed, is now in its late-development stage and will launch in the latter half of 2009. Baker is in the process of finding prospective managers and investors. The platform will cater to three different types of strategies: long/short, long-only benchmark agnostic and long-only benchmark relative. …