RMF to ramp up Asian hedge fund investments

RMF Investment Management, one of the triptych of fund-of-hedge-funds subsidiaries of Man Investments, has indicated that it plans to make large new investments in its portfolio of Asian hedge fund managers during 2008.Swiss-based Madrileno Jaime Castan, formerly an executive of Banco Santander in Hong Kong, has been the global head of hedge fund research for RMF since 2006. He told AsianInvestor during a visit to Hong Kong that the new money going into Asian hedge funds will be in th…