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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 ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... per cent respectively. The report found three of the four hedge strategies posted gains during the month, with market neutral funds leading the charge gaining 1.8 per cent on average. Convertible and fixed income arbitrage managers and event driven strategies ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... intra and inter-sector bets between asset classes. Instead, the actively managed fund aims to generate alpha from market neutral top down strategies. Simon Scott, Standard & Poor's fund services analyst, said the fund's team is appropriately qualified ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... capitalisation allocation. The long/short segregated range includes the US Systematic Small-Mid Cap 130/30 and a Market Neutral strategy. Both use the firm's proven quantitative platform and proprietary investment models. The strategy is managed by Pedro ...