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Eclectic looks for IMPACT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
Hedge fund manager, Eclectic Capital Management, has chosen Impact Investing software for its absolute return portfolio construction and management. Impact Investing's IMPACT software will support the firm's investment risk and long/short position analysis ...

New era for investment analysts

The unprecedented demand for alternative investments in the past two years has turned the world of the investment analyst completely upside down and has inspired the industry's leading experts to go back to "school" to teach the new rules. The Investment ...

Adept Capital launches Asian FOHFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... Asian focused hedge funds. The fund is capped at $164 million and is only available to professional investors. Each hedge fund's assets under management must not exceed $274 million and cannot have more than a three-year track record. Adept Capital Partners ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
The Australian stock market was down at midday following a negative lead from Wall Street. The banking sector was again suffering with analysts speculating that stocks were being short sold. At 1207 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 75.2 points ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Australian superannuation fund assets grew more than $125 billion last year despite a high allocation to equities in the face of falling markets, according to Watson Wyatt. The 2008 Global Pensions Assets Study surveyed the largest 11 pension markets ...

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... out." Dunning-Gribble said the firm's weighting to event driven and long/short equities would be reduced this year. "Hedge fund returns have largely held up during the credit crisis which is not really a surprise because we're not there to provide beta ...

Schroders expands fixed income team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Schroders Investment Management Australia has appointed Peter Fullerton to head of credit research in its fixed income team. The newly created position follows the appointment of Steven Hur to credit analyst in November last year. In this role Fullerton ...

Investors swarm to Asian hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... expand exponentially as investors flock to pour more than $12.4 billion into the market last year. New data by global hedge fund research house, Hedge Fund Research (HFR), show assets in the Asian hedge industry grew by approximately 37 per cent in 2007 ...

Largest US pension fund SIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... officer, global equity of US pension fund giant CalPERS, has jumped ship to take up the position of chief executive of hedge fund sponsor, Capital Z Asset Management. Wood will leave CalPERS in mid-February, and Eric Baggesen, senior portfolio manager ...

VFMC boosts inhouse investments by 25pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) chief investment officer, Leo de Bever, delivers on the strategy he outlined a year ago after the fund's allocation to external fund managers falls from 100 per cent before he joined to almost 75 per cent ...