Aisling’s Coleman Plans Hedge Fund to Trade Resource Shares

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Author: Bloomberg

Aisling Analytics Pte, manager of the $1.6 billion Merchant Commodity Fund, plans to start a $300 million equity hedge fund.

The Merchant Equity Fund will be an equity long-short fund investing in commodities and natural resource companies worldwide, with a focus on Asia, said Michael Coleman, the Singapore-based managing director of Aisling Analytics. Long- short funds bet on rising and falling stocks.