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Magellan hires ex-CFS head of distribution

Magellan Financial Group, formerly the Pengana Hedge Funds Group, has appointed Frank Casarotti as head of distribution for its funds management activities. Prior to joining Magellan, Casarottie worked at Commonwealth Bank where he was head of adviser ...

BT head of alternatives departs, new role created

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... is a newly realigned team responsible for managing BT's diversified portfolios, including the group's balanced and hedge fund products, exposure management and quantitative research function," he said. "Apart from his portfolio management strengths ...

Understanding will drive hedge funds

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
... gathering pace, but an impediment to growth was that some trustees did not feel completely at ease with increasing their hedge fund allocations due to a lack of nuderstanding about the sector. This wasn't helped, he said, by the fact definitive information ...

...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) said most of the returns for the hedge fund sector can be explained by their asset allocation, meaning it is possible to assemble a synthetic investment strategy to mimic hedge fund sector returns. Paul Brakke, a ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

Listed investment research group Morningstar has acquired Standard & Poor's (S&P) mutual fund data businesses globally for $70 million ($US55 million) in cash, a move that effectively gives Morningstar a 'monopoly' on managed funds data in Australia. ...

Passive hedge fund investing in vogue

The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Tracker Fund attracted an impressive US$5 billion of investor money in the past two years, proof that more investors want hedge fund performance but at "index" fees. "While the [tracker] fund was set up in ...

Pengana to ride the UK REIT wave

... external hedge funds. This week head of hedge funds distribution, Damien Hatfield, left the company to set up his own hedge fund research business. Michelle Baltazar

Hatfield leaves Pengana

High profile hedge fund advocate Damien Hatfield has left his role as head of Pengana's hedge fund distribution to set up his own hedge fund research business. Last September Hatfield reportedly sold his 15,000 shares in Pengana Managers weeks after ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... Stenham Asset Management has started 2007 in style, being awarded the Best Long-Term Achievement Award at the European Hedge Fund of Funds Awards. It was the second year in a row that Stenham went home with the award and adds to another accolade in winning ...

Dig deeper to find value in hedge funds: Permal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... their returns should not be a mystery, according to fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Permal Group, even if the hedge fund moniker is now so widely bandied around it is next to useless. "Saying something is a 'hedge fund' without an adjective before ...