Hedge Fund
The Hedge Fund Journal - Four Elements Capital: A Less Directional Approach To Commodities
Four Elements Capital is one of the latest hedge fund ventures to be launched using an existing team from within a bank. In this case it is a commodities team, with considerable experience of working together, that left BNP Paribas and JP Morgan to make use of the opportunities and flexibility that exist within a hedge fund structure.
Four Elements is being led by Lionel Semonin, a former managing director with BNP’s global commodity investor group. He and his team have left London to move to Singapore and are raising money for their first fund, the Earth Element Fund. “There has been a lot of discussion over the last two years about the commodities markets,” says Semonin. “From the investor’s perspective, commodities look very volatile, but they can also be an interesting investment. The real question is how they are being managed.”
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