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No transparency, no mandates: ARIA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... ARIA. Lochiel Crafter, chief executive of ARIA, said one of the major lessons learnt from the GFC in relation to market neutral or hedge funds was their lack of transparency, which arguably had been their downfall. Often not knowing the assets and positions ...

Fortitude to launch Aus equity income fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... a new Australian Equity Income fund with a twist. This month Fortitude won 2009 Hedge Fund of the Year and Best Market Neutral Fund for its Absolute Return Trust, a fund that is unfortunately a rarity in the hedge fund sector of late: it stayed well ...

Industry awards top hedge funds in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... Winner - Lanterne Arran Fund Finalist - Herschel Absolute Return Fund Finalist - TI Intercept Capital Fund Best Market Neutral Fund Winner - Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust Finalist - Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund Finalist - BGI Total Return ...

Alpha selects Pengana volatility strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Alpha Fund Managers has added the Pengana Global Volatility strategy to its multi-manager line-up. The market neutral strategy invests in exchange traded North American future and options. "The consistency of returns since the strategy began and having ...

TechInvest tops fastest growing fundie table

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... income strategies. "We have two businesses now, one is our global equity management where the flagship fund is a market neutral strategy. We also run credit and high income funds in conjunction with a group called Spectrum Asset Management," he said. ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... cent. The Greenwich Global Long/Short index fared better during the month with a 5.7 per cent return and the Global Market Neutral index recorded just over 2 per cent. The Futures index was the only global hedge fund index to post a negative return ...

Clearway adds third client

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Zealand. Zebra Capital Management, Clearway's third client, is a quantitative investment manager that provides market neutral and long short equity strategies to institutional investors. Roger Ibbotson, partner at Zebra Capital Management, said the Australian ...

Select exits third party distribution

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... to the Board of Directors at Select as chief executive, said Select will no longer be offering its Select Gottex Market Neutral fund to new retail investors. The Select Gottex Enhanced Market Neutral Fund will be wound up with net proceeds returned to ...

US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... fees and expenses. The index holds a range of hedge fund strategies including equity long/short, global macro, market neutral, event driven and fixed income arbitrage. The ETF also invests in a number of ETFs on the market to build the portfolio and ...

Perpetual appoints joint quant head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... McCaughan Securities and Citibank. Suntharam will focus on managing the firm's quantitative investment suite across market neutral, long short and long only funds while Khilnani will work on the development of new funds for prospective clients and have ...