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Super funds critical on alt investment regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
Almost one third of super funds that invest in alternatives are unhappy with the level of regulatory scrutiny in the sector, according to a Deloitte survey. Deloitte conducted the two month survey ending in December last year in conjunction with interviews ...

CFS GAM expands global resources

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... worked at Canadian based, David W Tice & Associates as lead portfolio manager in the Prudent Global Natural Resources Hedge Fund. In this position, Kuzmanovic will manage the long short global resources equity portfolios and global resources stock analysis. ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Postmortem into what caused the sub-prime fiasco is pointing the finger at the investment banks, hedge funds and even the apparent hero Dr Greenspan. The main problem, according to a just-released book titled The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... Street Global Advisors has been selected by UK-based Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to manage a $200 million hedge fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge funds ...

SELECT expands senior team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
Select Asset Management (SELECT) has appointed Andrew Fairweather to head of corporate development and Jonas Daly to institutional investment specialist. Brendan Foley, SELECT managing director, said Fairweather is in the process of completing his role ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a positive lead from Wall Street. At 0637 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was up 70 points at 5215. Today, New Zealand retailer The Warehouse Group ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... commodities and infrastructure. They will also include exposure to synthetic hedge funds through allocations to SSgA's hedge fund replication strategy. These predominantly passively managed strategies provide exposure to a range of asset classes - thereby ...

Value after sub-prime: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... director. Speaking at the SPAA conference, van Eyk said investors should allocate towards emerging market stocks using hedge fund strategies. "Shares will probably perform at around eight or nine per cent this year, so those long/short strategies which ...

Attack of the hedge clones

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
The global hedge fund industry is in for a major makeover as hedge fund replication tools or "clones" permeate through the sector to deliver returns at the fraction of traditional costs. Banking giant Goldman Sachs spearheaded the cloning phenomenon ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
While the performance of listed property and hedge funds falter in the wake of the US sub-prime disaster, fund managers such as Ascalon Capital Managers are steering their attention to the global commodity sector to maximise investor returns. The St.George ...