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BT backs new hedge fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
BT Financial Group has partnered with new hedge fund manager Voyager Funds Management in a distribution deal for the group's flagship Voyager Pan Asia Fund. The long-short equities fund, run by Voyager's seven person investment team, is market neutral ...

Pengana's hedge fund arm finds a new home

... operate both as a global fund manager with a long only global equities fund and continue as a joint venture partner with hedge fund managers and in private equity projects. Mackay said that under the deal the consortium have retained only Pengana's infrastructure ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
Retreating hedge fund returns are putting hedge fund fees under increased scrutiny, especially the double fees in funds of hedge funds (FOHF), and this is seeing more attention shift to single manager multi-strategy funds which are more likely to add ...

State Super hands mandates to Fidelity and Alliance Bernstein

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... shift, State Super will also award a mandate in the global listed property sector and is considering allocations to a hedge fund of funds and to the commodities futures sector. "Global property will be our next appointment before the end of the year," ...

Hedge funds set to splurge on IT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... Datamonitor research also highlighted increasing competition in the sector which would likely further fuel the need for hedge fund managers to improve IT systems and capabilities to achieve a competitive edge. "The evolution of the hedge fund sector ...

DeAM chases alpha in fixed income

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... will invest in high yields, emerging markets and investment grade corporate securities and can use the traditional hedge fund strategy of short selling. DeAM head of fixed income and deputy chief investment officer of DeAM Australia, Bill Bovingdon ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative ...

New Sydney FOHF entrant wins global award

... coveted Global Investor Investment Excellence Award handed out in London last month. The 105-year old award winning hedge fund group, Stenham Asset Management, has set up shop in Australia to cater for its growing Australian retail and institutional ...

Man and Eurex seal derivatives future

Man Group plc, one of the world's largest futures brokers, and Eurex, the world's largest derivatives exchange, are to join forces and design the next generation of listed derivative products. The two companies have announced they will work together ...

Citigroup revamps hedge fund platform

Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking has developed a new end-to-end hedge fund platform that it said will allow hedge fund managers to do multi-strategy, multi-asset class and multi-currency investing under one roof. The new front-to-back platform ...