Taiwan fund looks to China CB

Prodigy Asset Management, a Taipei-based hedge fund set up by a group of ex-Yuanta Securities traders to trade convertible bond strategies, has launched a new fund. The Phoenix Fund was launched in March with $10 million under management, raised mainly from Prodigy's existing Taiwanese investor base. "The CBs we're investing in are bank guaranteed, with very limited downside risk, but high potential upside," says Prodigy's executive director, Samuel Wang. "We think the CB market is…