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Eagle IT opens Sydney office

The Bank of New York Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment Systems has selected Sydney as its Asia Pacific base. The financial services technology provider offers web-based systems for managed funds, hedge funds, brokers, insurance companies and pension ...

Short selling shouldn't be sold short

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... you take away the financial tools to add value," said Pearson. In other Greenwich news, Pearson said their investible hedge fund index has just been approved to be an underlying index for hedge fund investments in Luxembourg and Dublin. "Hedge funds ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... ipac securities has moved approximately $160 million out of BT and into Prisma Capital Partners, a US-based fund of hedge fund represented locally by alternatives consultant Brookvine. Up until last month, Ipac invested the sums with BT Grosvenor Master ...

Quattro to distribute HK giant's products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... process of launching its first fund, Vault 08, which provides a capital guaranteed, single manager, multi strategy and hedge fund replication strategy for retail clients. The fund provides exposure to five UBS proprietary global investment strategies ...

Super funds commit 6pc to private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... returns of more than 30 per cent, this level is hard to be maintained." The proportion of super funds using of fund of hedge fund strategies for private equity investment rose by 25 per cent to 75 per cent over the last three years, followed by direct ...

Prudential selects IMPACT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... Impact's second deal in the past few months. In March, Eclectic Capital Management also selected IMPACT for the firm's hedge fund portfolio construction and management. Prudential Asset Management is one of Asia's largest fund managers with more than ...

Alternatives cause valuation headaches

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Super fund legalsuper has taken extra steps when reviewing its alternative assets portfolio to address concerns that members could risk losing their savings from mispricing of illiquid assets. The super fund now do monthly valuations of their alternative ...

MAN hedge fund gets top rating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Recently launched hedge fund MAN RMF Dynamic has been awarded a "highly recommended" rating by Zenith Investment Partners - the only product to achieve the standard in the ratings house's hedge fund of fund scoreboard. The fund gives investors the opportunity ...

Volatility hits 5-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Volatility in US markets has jumped to its highest levels in five years yet not all volatility managers seem to know how to make the most of it, reports the latest VanMac hedge funds state of play newsletter. "Volatility increased in markets with the ...

Gray to advise Brookvine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Former GMO strategist Jack Gray has joined alternative investment specialist, Brookvine, in a special advisory role. In January, Gray resigned from GMO as head of strategy to pursue academic projects and work with the United Nations High Commissioner ...