Headstart Advisers Launches Global Emerging Markets Fund

LONDON, January 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Fund Will Seek out Value and Opportunities in Emerging Markets

- Not for distribution in the United States of America

With growing investor interest in emerging markets and following on from the success of its Limestone Wider Russia Fund, Headstart Advisers has launched the new Limestone Global Emerging Markets Fund.

The fund will look to exploit the inherent value and growth in emerging markets as the world undergoes a huge shift in wealth away from the developed markets to the thriving, less indebted emerging markets in the developing world.

The fund will have a medium term investment horizon seeking capital appreciation with a focus on liquidity and Headstart's in depth proprietary research.

There will initially be a bias to the liquid markets of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) but the new Headstart Advisers fund will also invest across all emerging markets where there is value and opportunity. The fund will rely on the core competency of Najy Nasser, Headstart Adviser's Chief Investment Officer, to analyse market movements combined with Headstart's in depth research and risk management.

Najy Nasser, CIO of Headstart Advisers, said: "In recent years Headstart Advisers has fully recognised the opportunity in emerging markets and our Wider Russia Fund has been a real success. This new, broader Emerging Markets Fund will be a direct fund investing in the individual companies who will be the winners as their home markets grow. We believe this new Headstart fund is a natural progression for us which will be positioned to perform well as the Emerging Markets' share of Global GDP continues to increase."

Notes to editors about Headstart Advisers

Headstart Advisers Ltd is a financial services company incorporated in 1990, authorised and regulated by the FSA as an investment advisor to the Headstart family of hedge funds (within Regulation S of the U.S. Securities Legislation and so subject to investment restrictions as set out more fully on its Website). It advises four hedge funds and a fund of hedge funds with the common mandate of superior returns with lower volatility (risk).

The directors of Headstart Advisers Ltd are Najy Nasser and Henry Watkinson. The firm has its office in Chelsea Harbour, London.

    
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