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Danny Yong (born 1972) is a Singaporean hedge fund manager. He is the Chief Investment Officer and founding partner of Dymon Asia Capital. The Firm was founded in 2008 and is an alternative investment management firm with notional assets under management of around USD5.9 billion across hedge funds, private equity and venture capital strategies as of March 2017. The Firm is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. In May 2014, Temasek invested USD500 million in Dymon Asia's strategies and also took a minority stake in the company. Dymon Asia Capital has 134 employees, including 65 investment professionals.

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The Firm's flagship Dymon Asia Macro Fund is a multi-manager discretionary global macro strategy with a focus on Asian currencies, fixed income and equity indices. The investment team comprises portfolio managers with in-depth knowledge of the idiosyncrasies across the Asian markets including regulations, investment flow and cultural nuances.

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Demonstrative of the Firm's specialty and expertise, the Dymon Asia Macro Fund was ranked in the top 50 by Bloomberg Magazine in 2016's Top-Performing Funds with assets over USD1 billion. Prior to 2016, the Dymon Asia Macro Fund was ranked amongst the top ten hedge funds globally in 2011 and in 2014. The Dymon Asia Currency Value Fund was similarly ranked 2nd globally for funds with assets under USD1 billion in 2016.

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Career

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Mr. Danny Yong has over 20 years of experience trading FX, fixed income and equity futures in Asia. Prior to founding Dymon Asia, he was a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer of Abax Global Capital, a hedge fund based in Hong Kong. Danny was also a Managing Director at Citadel Investment Asia in Hong Kong, where he established and ran the Asia Macro trading business from late 2005 to 2007. He was Goldman Sachs' Head of Trading for South East Asian FX and Derivatives where he spent almost six years in the Hong Kong and Tokyo offices. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Danny spent three years as a FX currency and derivatives trader at JP Morgan in Singapore.

Personal life

Mr. Yong's father died when he was just 10 years old. In 1992, Yong was serving his military service, becoming operations officer of the 24th Battalion of the Singapore Artillery. After serving in the military, he achieved first class honors in business and finance at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.

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