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Eclectic signs up to Hatfield Liptak

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
Hatfield Liptak Advisors has secured the rights to market and distribute local hedge fund Eclectic Capital Management both domestically and offshore. Melbourne based Eclectic Capital can provide investors with a transparent portfolio due to its dealings ...

AIMA aims for greater hedge fund disclosure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Amid the background of hedge fund collapses both locally and in the US, the Alternative Investment Management Association of Australia (AIMA) today released new risk disclosure guidelines for Australian hedge funds. The voluntary guidelines, developed ...

High net worth clients like it crystal clear

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
Among the key criteria for high net worth clients when choosing where to park their money are product transparency and access to the underlying fund managers, according to Richard Nicholas, director of Peak Investment Partners. Speaking at the Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... market conditions could hurt its profits. A $US3 billion rescue package that Goldman Sachs Group Inc organised for a hedge fund hammered by recent market turmoil helped support the market. The move is in contrast to other major banks, which recently ...

QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
QIC has awarded a $250 million mandate to UK-based asset manager Henderson Global Investors' Global Equity multi-strategy fund. The fund is a pure alpha strategy using fundamental, liquidity, relative value and event driven strategies, with a yearly ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Is the current sub-prime calamity really another savings and loan crisis in the making, or just market noise? Consensus is that the volatility is more rollercoaster than bear-trend, and as such markets are quite capable of recovering just a quickly. ...

Barriers to hedging

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
The hedge fund industry's current growth will plateau unless the three big obstructions of high fees, low transparency and poor liquidity are removed, according to JANA managing director of asset consulting Ken Marshman. Increasing superannuation fund ...

Opes Prime challenges Macq

Financial services provider Opes Prime has launched the Opes Prime Wealth Platform, an all-in-one retail prime brokerage service that will compete with a similar offering from Macquarie. The new service is tailored to the top end of the market which ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
A plunge on Wall St triggered by further jitters about the subprime mortgage market is likely to hit local stocks today, with the market expected to open the week sharply lower. At 0727 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Sub-prime dominoes falling

... given to poor people in Detroit, Los Angeles and New Orleans could have brought down a multi-billion dollar Australian hedge fund. Nonetheless, sub-prime fallout has seeped through the credit markets to the Cayman Islands and on to Circular Quay in Sydney ...