amia capital a londonbased hedge fund focused on emerging markets is in talks to raise as much as 500 million tapping renewed investor interest in the industry the fundraising will boost the firm’s assets to 2 billion according to an investor letter sent to clients on tuesday and seen by bloomberg it then intends to stop taking new cash a spokesman for the firm cofounded by antoine estier former chief investment officer at grupo btg pactual sa’s hedge fund unit declined to comment