Saxo Bank A/S - Saxo Bank A/S - World TopInvestor Winner Easily Beats Performance of Hedge Funds

Haochen Hu, a acclimatized broker from Hong Kong, won this year´s World TopInvestor antagonism with assets of about 785% over 12 months.

London - The champ of World TopInvestor Competition 2007-08, Haochen Hu, has outperformed the world´s arch barrier funds with assets of about 785% over the antagonism period. The antagonism is a live, absolute money, basic markets trading antagonism abiding for a abounding year. The cost for the top broker is the administration of a armamentarium with an investment amount of USD 250,000 sponsored by Saxo Bank, a all-around baton in online trading and investment services.

The champ of the 2007-08 antagonism was Haochen Hu, who led a able acreage including Guo Hanqui with a net accretion of 630%, Julian Szkirpan from the United States with 555% as able-bodied as Hungarian investors György Doleschall with a 315% accretion and Tamás Czajner with 135%.

"Losing money is bad, but it is abundant worse if you don´t apperceive why you lost. I accept traded online for eight years and you have to abstraction and be accustomed with the artefact you ambition to advance in. My action was simple. I focused on bill trading and acclimated the college advantage if I acquainted the adventitious was there," commented Hu.

Surprised with the end aftereffect himself, Hu´s abreast 785% accretion is extraordinary. According to Hedge Fund Research Inc. indices, a alternation of benchmarks advised to reflect barrier armamentarium industry achievement by amalgam appropriately abounding composites of basic funds, the abounding basis was up 10.02% in 2007. Research from Morningstar, a arch provider of absolute investment research, indicates the boilerplate acknowledgment was 12.5%.

"The World TopInvestor antagonism is a way to body acceptance of your skills. You attempt adjoin traders from all over the world, trading on the aforementioned belvedere while application any and all of the instruments available. This year´s participants were apple alliance investors, able to accomplish a accumulation in a falling market, and calmly assault able traders," said Christian Lund Hammer, Global Head of Partner Marketing from Saxo Bank.

Christian Lund Hammer emphasises the winners had a absolute compassionate of how the bazaar works and abundant aptitude to barter in an added airy market.

"One of the better changes throughout 2007 was the access in animation and appropriately a addition of ranges. To account from that, you charge abilities in trading Forex, Commodities, CFDs and Futures. This year´s winners had those skills," commented Christian Lund Hammer.

Next year´s World TopInvestor Competition is accessible to all entrants accommodating to accessible an anniversary with any Broker sponsor. Among this year´s sponsors of the World TopInvestor antagonism were several arch online investment banks and brokers from all over the apple including: Saxo Bank, Commodity Broking Services, BenchMark Finance, Cambiste, Finexo, Buda-Cash Brókerház, TMS Brokers, Banco Best, Poteza BPD, Dif Broker and RCG FX Trader.

Media Inquiries

Kasper Elbjørn, Saxo Bank Corporate Communications
Tel.:+45-3065-4300

Christian Lund Hammer, Saxo Bank Global Marketing
Tel.: +45-5159-5025

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About Saxo Bank A/S

Saxo Bank A/S is a all-around investment case specializing in online investments in all-embracing Capital Markets. Saxo Bank enables audience to barter currencies, shares, CFDs, futures, options and added derivatives, as able-bodied as accouterment portfolio administration via our online trading platform, SaxoTrader. SaxoTrader has been developed by Saxo Bank and is accessible to today´s broker anon through Saxo Bank or through one of our all-around partnerships, area it forms an basic allotment of their infrastructure. One of Saxo Bank´s cogent areas of business is White Labelling. This involves the bank´s online trading belvedere accepting customized and branded for added banking institutions and brokers. Saxo Bank has added than 100 White Label Partners and boasts bags of audience in over 177 countries. Saxo Bank currently employs about 1,300 advisers from 58 altered countries. Saxo Bank has its address in Copenhagen, with offices in London, Geneva, Zürich, Singapore and Marbella. It aswell runs a adumbrative appointment in Beijing and an IT development centre in St. Petersburg.

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