Albert Saporta is AIM&R's founding partner and has 17 years' experience in global financial markets. The Firm has a team of 5 professionals with offices in Geneva and San Francisco. Before starting AIM&R, Mr. Saporta worked for IFM, UBS Securities, Merrill Lynch and Paribas. He currently runs two hedge funds, the SOG Fund (global multi-strategy arbitrage) and SOGAsia. The SOGAsia fund is an Asia including Japan, multi-strategy arbitrage fund. It employs structure arbitrage, closed-end fund arbitrage, pair trading, merger arbitrage and event driven strategies. The SOGAsia Fund was launched in July 2002 and was +1.4% for 2002. Mr. Saporta is based in Geneva.

Interview with Albert Saporta