Octagon Capital adopts a quantitative approach to investing and is run by Lam Poh Min and Nelson Chia in Singapore. Poh Min has ten years of portfolio management experience. Prior to setting up Octagon, he spent nine years with Singapore's Government Investment Corporation (GIC). He was a senior portfolio manager in the quantitative investment unit. Nelson was a trader at GIC for nine years, working in Singapore, London and New York.

The Octagon Pan Asia Fund is a trend-following, directional long/short equity fund that invests across Asia, including Japan, Australia and India, covering ten markets, 2,000 stocks and across all market capitalisation levels.

The fund was launched in October 2004 and currently has US$1 million under management.