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Macq merges hedge funds to form $1bn MQ

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
Macquarie Bank's Equity Markets Group has announced that it is combining its separate hedge fund businesses under the name MQ Specialist Investment Management (MQ) to form a combined $1 billion heavy hitter. Greg Mackay, the head of newly formed MQ ...

REST hits $10.5bn on a strong FY06

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
The country's largest industry fund in terms of membership, REST, handed out its largest dollar distribution to members in the history of the fund after strong earnings for the 2006 financial year saw the fund grow by $2.1 billion to reach over $10.5 ...

Small cap funds not driven by skill: van Eyk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2006
... excluding some managers purely on the basis of their level of fees. "We do not recommend small company managers charging hedge fund like fees unless we know they are worth it."

Banks burdened by regulatory overkill

Too much regulation pose a serious health risk to banks and other finance companies around the world, according to the latest survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI). Australian respondents of the ...

S&P international review highlights higher risk appetite

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
A new S&P report shows that the appetite for higher risk has continued to climb, with international large cap equity managers taking larger exposures to emerging markets and incorporating them into higher conviction portfolios. S&P's new international ...

Grange number one for credit linked notes: AsiaRisk magazine

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2006
... including Australia, covering corporate treasurers, risk managers, chief financial officers, life insurance companies, hedge fund managers and private banking clients. The survey ranked the top five financial institutions in Australia in the credit and ...

HNW investors dumping hedge funds in favour of PE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
... hedge funds, he said, was that hedge funds initially promised huge returns regardless of market conditions but as the hedge fund market has matured and become more crowded, they have failed to deliver some of their promise. But private equity has found ...

Rivals join hands for AustralianSuper

Walking down the aisle with two brides? The soon-to-merge STA/ARF mega fund AustralianSuper will retain both JANA and Frontier to provide asset consulting for the fund's combined $20 billion portfolio. Under the arrangement that will come into effect ...

Fees are going up, but it wasn't meant to be

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
... increasing. For example, some industry funds are charging in excess of 4 per cent pa for their new private equity or hedge fund investment options, and one is even charges more than 6 per cent. I'd be surprised if any master trust would be brave enough ...

Illiquidity to test retail investors: AMP

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
Illiquidity will prove a test to retail investors in funds with high alternative allocations in the advent of a bear or falling market, AMP's leading economist has warned. AMP's chief economist and head of investment strategy for the group's diversified ...