Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, February 17th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Soft Bank's investment chief is pushing for a hedge fund vehicle,

deviating from Masayoshi Sun's vision.

Plus there's a new way for investors to bet more cheaply against Chinese stocks.

And Samsung has figured out a workaround to deal with supply chain disruptions caused by the coronavirus.

I'm Amy Keene and here's the news you need to start your day.

The head of Soft Bank's $100 billion Vision Fund has lined up billions of dollars of outside

investment for a new hedge fund style investment vehicle.

Regief Misra, who oversees the Vision Fund, has been pushing to build a fund to pursue complex

bets on publicly traded companies.

That's according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Sources told the F.T. that Mr. Mr. Mr.'s plans have the support from Abu Dhabi State Fund

and the government of Kazakhstan. But this move would mark a sharp deviation

from Softbank founder Masayoshi Sans vision.

He created the telecom group's investment arm

to Tic-Stiks in private tech-focused startups and then profit from scaling them up.

But that strategy's been called into question following the Vision Funds Betts and companies such as We Work and the dog walking app, WAG. Now a new way to bet against China.

China's equity market is one of the biggest in the world.

The main CSI 300 index boasts an overall market cap of four and a half trillion

dollars. But shorting or taking negative bets on these stocks can be tricky. It's

expensive and it involves dealing with onerous regulation.

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